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For this year’s observance of International Environment Day the United Nations is focusing on the plight of forests worldwide. In Haiti, there remains less than one percent tree cover. Most deforestation is caused by the local population’s need for land to farm, wood to build with, and charcoal to cook with. The result has left immense tracks of land bare to the elements, hastened massive soil erosion and increased land slides and flash flooding.
View of a deforested hilltop near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

A member of the peasant association from a community in the Harerge Province, east of Addis Ababa, guards the land against vandals.
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Headline Farming for Development: Erosion Control Project in Iran

Caption Description For some time to come the poorer countries of the world will have to rely on agriculture to raise their living standards and supply the capital they need to create industries. Agricultural production must therefore be increased. This requires tractors, fertilizers, new and better seeds, vast irrigation schemes, land reforms.
Sand dune fixation experiments with drought resistant plants at Sabzewar. In order to control erosion and protect the irrigation network of the country the Government, with help from the Food and Agriculture Organization under the UN Development Programme carried out experiments in catchment areas. [Exact date unknown]

Unique Identifier UN7732624

NICA ID 107241

Production Date 01/01/1971 5:12:46 PM

Country Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Credit UN Photo/FAO/H. Null

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