Planet Diversity World Congress on the Future of Food and Agriculture

Gallery

Thank you Michael Ableman for these beautiful images. All images are copyrighted by Michael Ableman: From the Good Earth (Abrams, 1993) and Fields of Plenty (Chronicle Books, 2005).

Northern California, USA

Autumn

USA

Organic Farmer

Burundi

Brown skin blends with dark, moist earth.

Ijenda, Burundi

Sorghum Beer

Ijenda, Burundi

Returning from the fields

Ijenda, Burundi

A woman gleans small and damaged ears left behind from the main harvest.

USA

Cabbage

China

Several crops may share the same field: one ready for harvest, one developing below, and one newly seeded.

China

The patchwork of small plots so common to China makes tractors impractical.

USA

City garden

USA

Harvest

South Philadelphia, USA

Garden of Eatin' thrives in a decaying neighborhood.

Peru

Inca legends say quinoa was the remains of a heavenly banquet.

San Bruno, California, USA

The San Bruno Jail Horticulture Project helps inmates to recovery.

Pisac, Peru

Native maize

Valle Sagrada, Peru

Farmers grow bean and barley on terraces that fed their Inca ancestors.

Occidental, California, USA

Ornamental kale with romanesco, beets, chard and spinach.

San Francisco, California, USA

The Bartol Intergenerational Garden on the roof of the On Lok Senior Center.

Northern Thailand

A Karen tribesman winnows.

USA

Free range turkeys