Sunday, November 12, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos November 12, 2017

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture.

U.S.A.
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Project Angel Heart 14 year veteran volunteer Peter Quintero adding bread crumbs on top of the macaroni and cheese and chopped zucchini meals before they are sealed for refrigeration and delivery. The organization prepares and delivers meals to over 1,100 critically ill men, women and children in Denver and Colorado Springs. November 8, 2017 in Denver, CO. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.
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Cattle are displayed at a livestock auction at Pruitt's Mid-State stockyards in Damascus, Arkansas, on November 6, 2017. One year ago, the people of Clinton, Arkansas swung their weight wholeheartedly behind Donald Trump's maverick election bid, and the simple, rural community has not been disappointed by the president's straight-talking style in office. Photo credit: AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Images.

E.U.
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French farmer Ghislain De Viron presents butter made from a blend of European Union milk as a substitute for French butter in front of the hyper market Leclerc d'Alllonnes, near Le Mans, northwestern France, on November 10, 2017 during an action to sell butter at a price that will remunerate them. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / Getty Images.
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A brewer works in an ephemeral brewery set by French brewers association 'brasseurs de France' in a winery of the Bercy district of Paris on November 9, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Eric FEFERBERG / Getty Images.
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Sweet pastry is on display at a stand during a press tour at FICO Eataly World agri-food park in Bologna on November 9, 2017. Eataly World, said to be the world's biggest agri-food park, will open to the public on November 15, 2017. The free entry park, widely described as the Disney World of Italian food, is ten hectares big and will enshrine all the Italian food biodiversity. Photo credit: AFP / Vincenzo PINTO / Getty Images.
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A vendor presents special Italian sheep 'kebab' at a stand during a press tour at FICO Eataly World agri-food park in Bologna on November 9, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Vincenzo PINTO / Getty Images.
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Members of Confederation Paysanne's French farmers union protest against the '4.000 Bovins' (Four thousands Bovines) farm, a livestock farming project on November 7, 2017 in Digoin, central France. In the upcoming days the prefect of SaƓne-et-Loire will have to take a decision over the operating authorization of the 4,000-bovines farm in Digoin. Photo credit: AFP / PHILIPPE DESMAZES / Getty Images.
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Veterinarians check duck carcasses during the traditional poultry fair in Samatan southwestern France on November 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / PASCAL PAVANI / Getty Images.
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France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (C) speaks with Mayor of Trois Rivieres Jean-Louis Francisque (5-RL) and President of the Guadeloupe Banana Association, Francis Lignieres (2-L) during a visit to the Morand Banana Farm on November 5, 2017 in Trois Rivieres, on the French Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe, following hurricanes Irma and Maria. Photo credit: AFP / Helene Valenzuela / Getty Images.
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In this photograph taken on November 7, 2017, a customer looks at organic products in an Auchan 'Bio' supermarket on the outskirts of Lille in northern France. Auchan has announced the launch of a 100% organic supermarket, with the objective, if the experience is positive, to eventually open a hundred stores and potentially more in a market whose growth exceeds 20%. Photo credit: AFP / DENIS CHARLET / Getty Images.

INDIA
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A herd of sheep grazes on a mound during the autumn season on November 8, 2017 in Budgam west of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Autumn colours are reaching their peak as the days are becoming shorter, heralding the approach of winter in Kashmir. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.

OTHER NATIONS
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Vietnamese women sell bananas at the Con Market in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017, as leaders from the 21-member APEC organisation meet for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. Photo credit: AFP / YE AUNG THU / Getty Images.
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A truck transports livestock from Syria's northeastern Kurdish area into Iraq across the Tigris river just south of the three-way border crossing between Iraq-Syria-Turkey on November 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN / Getty Images.
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Palestinian microbiology students from Gaza's al-Azhar University grow oyster mushrooms at one of their houses in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on November 7, 2017. The students decided to grow mushrooms in their homes, with the support of Gaza's ministry of agriculture, amid the lack of employment opportunities for female graduates and girls. Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMMED ABED / Getty Images.
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A Sri Lankan farmer prepares a paddy field for sowing in Piliyandala, on the outskirts of Colombo on November 8, 2017. Sri Lanka drastically cut import taxes on essential foods on November 8 to curb record high inflation before its annual budget presentation. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said he was slashing taxes immediately on six commonly consumed commodities to cut high living costs. Photo credit: AFP / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / Getty Images.
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Shepherds Osman Faran (L) and Gurgin Dinc (R) rest with their sheep as they stop on the way to their villages from a highland of Van's Gurpinar District, Turkey on November 09, 2017. The two shepherds have a tough journey in harsh weather conditions to transport their animals from the highland where they herded their sheep on summer to the district center of Gurpinar. The shepherds who wanted to bring their animals to their winter settlement to take shelter from cold weather and snow, had started a difficult journey in harsh weather conditions, four days ago. Shepherds have walked with their horses and dogs about 110 kilometers, aim to get their animals to the barns at their winter settlement at the end of the day. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.
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Fishermen unload the catch of shark species from the cold storage at the pier, Muara Angke, Jakarta, November 10,2017. The large demand for shark parts to make status protected is still prevalent, shark species in Indonesia are currently threatened with extinction, as they are not well managed and there is no clear regulation of control and utilization. Photo credit: Dasril Roszandi / NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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A Palestinian man picks pineapples during a harvest at a farm in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 9, 2017. This is the first time in the past decade that pineapples have been successfully cultivated in the Gaza Strip, according to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC). Photo credit: AFP / SAID KHATIB / Getty Images.
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Afghan farmers sort pomegranates for export at a farm in Kandahar on November 11, 2017. Frosty relations between Kabul and Islamabad have put a brake on Afghanistan's ambitious plans to boost fruit exports, seen as vital to providing farmers an alternative to poppy cultivation which fuels the Taliban insurgency. Photo credit: AFP / JAVED TANVEER / Getty Images.
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Owners of the 'Kubbe Istanbul' art and culture center, Harun Resit Goktas and Fahri Akdag have their breakfast with their colleagues at the rooftop of their workplace in Istanbul's Eminonu, Turkey on November 11, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.