Fishermen land their wooden boats on the beach in Tanzania, one of the countries involved in the genetic analysis of the Swahili people. Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
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Farmers near Nairobi offload livestock manure that will be used to fertilize crops. Because of the war in Ukraine, where a lot of fertilizer is produced, the price of it has skyrocketed, and Kenyan farmers say they now cannot afford to buy it. Brian Inganga/AP hide caption
Rattan Lal, an Indian-born scientist, has devoted his career to finding ways to capture carbon from the air and store it in soil. Ken Chamberlain/OSU/CFAES hide caption
Corn from a fall harvest in Guatemala. John Seaton Callahan/Getty Images hide caption
Sadiq Muhammed Kabir, 24, runs his own import-export business selling ginger root in Kaduna, Nigeria. He shared his "hustle" on Twitter. Courtesy of Ismail Abdulahi, Abdullahi Musa/Twitter hide caption
A laborer climbs a tree to pluck coconuts at a farm in India. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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A farmer picks coca leaves in a field in Colombia. Joaquin Sarmiento/Getty Images hide caption
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Cedric Habiyaremye and his mother, Agnes Mukankwaya, on a quinoa farm in Rwanda. Cedric Habiyaremye hide caption
Samuel-Richard Bogobley holds a GPS-enabled tablet to capture the location of one corner of an underwater clam "farm" belonging to Kofi Amatey, in pink, in Ghana's Volta River estuary. Tim McDonnell/for NPR hide caption
Sale Tambaya, a cattle herder in central Nigeria, grazes his cows. After his home state criminalized open grazing on Nov. 1, he and his family fled with their livestock to a neighboring state where grazing is allowed. Two of his sons died on the journey. Tim McDonnell for NPR hide caption
Workers prepare pineapple seedlings for planting at the Gold Coast Fruits farm in Ghana. Amy Yee for NPR hide caption
When does food aid work? Hanna Barczyk for NPR hide caption
Goats climb an argan tree in Morocco to dine on its fruit. Jeremy Horner/Getty Images hide caption
Somali children walk to a food distribution on the outskirts of Mogadishu on April 9. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Girindra Nath Jha returned to his boyhood village of Chanka. Now he's teaching farming and English — and he's started a writer's retreat. Courtesy Shivalkar Jha hide caption
Humans battle the germs. Xaver Xylophon for NPR hide caption
A fall armyworm — actually a caterpillar — takes a bite out of corn and other crops. Jayne Crozier/Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International hide caption
A mango seedling can — after a few years — bear economically beneficial fruit. Claudiad/Getty Images/Vetta hide caption