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  • Pineapple producer holding a ripe MD2 variety pineapple while standing in a pineapple field.
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  • Farm worker inspecting pineapple crops.
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  • Farm worker inspecting pineapple crops.
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  • Farm worker inspecting pineapple crops.
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  • Farm workers inspecting pineapple crops.
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  • Farm workers inspecting pineapple crops.
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  • A woman carries a large plate of peanuts on her head while offering them for sale in Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Man sitting on steps smoking cigarette outside a farmhouse near Vinales, Cuba.
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  • Woman pouring rice to separate it from straw and other impurities.
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  • A woman carries a large plate of peanuts on her head while offering them for sale in Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Supervisors looking over worker spraying chemicals on pineapple crops
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  • Worker taking at pause at a rice packing plant in Asutsuare, Ghana.
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  • Workers drying rice at a drying platform in Asutsuare, Ghana.
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  • Worker planting rice in a field at Asutsuare, Ghana.
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  • Lone worker in a rice field, Asutsuare, Ghana
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  • Lone worker in a rice field, Asutsuare, Ghana
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  • Workers planting rice in a field at Asutsuare, Ghana.
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  • Workers planting rice in a field at Asutsuare, Ghana.
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  • Cocoa farm, Central Region.<br />
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Farmer is Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70.<br />
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Farms cocoa since 1998, his father was also a cocoa farmer in the Eastern Region.<br />
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A bag of 65kg of cocoa beans sells for 572,000 cedis, the profit after paying farm workers, etc, is about 150k.
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  • Sweet potato farmer Mwanaidi Ramadhani and fellow farmers walk through a field as they head to a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, stands in a cocoa plantation on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Sweet potato farmers work on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) work on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a handful of dry cocoa beans on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The cocoa industry employs more people than any other sector in Ghana, and cocoa is the country's second export (after gold). Ghana is the world's second largest producer of cocoa - only Cote d'Ivoire produces more.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a handful of dry cocoa beans on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The cocoa industry employs more people than any other sector in Ghana, and cocoa is the country's second export (after gold). Ghana is the world's second largest producer of cocoa - only Cote d'Ivoire produces more.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah (right), 70, and a farm worker spread cocoa beans over a mat where they will dry in the sun at Mensah's farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. A bag of 65 kg of dry cocoa beans will sell for just over $60 - Mensah says the profit he makes on one bag barely reaches $15.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) transplant sweet potato plantlets on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Sweet potato farmers Mwanaidi Ramadhani (L) and Maria Mchele (R) transplant sweet potato plantlets on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Comfort Kumeah poses for a portrait on a cocoa plantation near the town of Nem, Ghana on Thursday August 17, 2007.
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  • Walemba Kobenda, 28 (man).Masca Emerance, 18..2 children.9hrs walk to come here.Kiwanja???..theyve been here for 3 weeks..We saw that if we went to stay in the camp, we would get diarrhea, we would get sick, because of all the people who stay there...We had a little bit of money so we found this house. We pay $10 per month for rent...We don't sleep well, we have no food, to find water to drink is a problem...100F = 20L of water..Children 4 years old, 1.5 years old..I hope our children can have a good life...He's a farmer, and also owns a small provisions shop.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, stands in a cocoa plantation on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah (back), 70, and a farm worker spread cocoa beans over a mat where they will dry in the sun at Mensah's farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. A bag of 65 kg of dry cocoa beans will sell for just over $60 - Mensah says the profit he makes on one bag barely reaches $15.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a cocoa pod he just cracked open to display the seeds on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
    GHA07.0120.COCOA038.jpg
  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to harvest cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand.
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  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Maria Mchele holds freshly-harvested sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Maria Mchele (R) and Theresa Mathias (L) harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Mwanaidi Ramadhani (C) and Theresa Mathias (L) harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • A woman harvests sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Women harvest sweet potatoes on a farm run by a local farmer's group in the village of Mwazonge, roughly 30km southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania on Sunday December 13, 2009..
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  • Farmer Safietou Goudiaby shakes rice after pounding it to separate the shell from the grain outside her home in the village of Kagnarou, Senegal on Friday May 28, 2010. She says the process takes about two hours.
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  • Daniel Oblie, owner of Hello Design Coffins, opens the back of a tanker truck-shaped coffin at his workshop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008. Is it a tradition in Ghana to bury people in coffins shaped to represent their life's work. For instance, the owner of an fuel company would be buried in a tanker-truck coffin, a cocoa farmer in one shaped as a cocoa pod.
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  • Apprentice coffin maker Jonathan Aduful  adjusts the lid of a chicken-shaped coffin, ordered for a poultry farmer, at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.
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  • Coffins shaped as lions, cars and cocoa pods are seen on display at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.  Is it a tradition in Ghana to bury people in coffins shaped to represent their life's work. For instance, a chief would be buried in a lion-shaped coffin, a driver in a car-shaped one, and a cocoa farmer in one shaped as a cocoa pod..
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  • Apprentice coffin maker Jonathan Aduful  adjusts the lid of a chicken-shaped coffin, ordered for a poultry farmer, at the Hello Design Coffins shop in Teshie, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital Accra, on Tuesday December 9, 2008.
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