A family eating a typical meal of rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A member of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association caryying a harvest of rice on her head just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Women of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association singing while carrying their rice back from the fields in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association harvesting rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting, and instead u 

A man from the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association wrapping up a bundle of rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting a 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Women using the traditional methods of threshing rice by simply grinding it with their feet or hands in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

People making music for a dance to celebrate the harvest season in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District, Sierra Leone. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A farmer separating rice grains from the chaff in Kondeye, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Bundles of rice hanging to dry in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Rice fields in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. General view of rice fields in Kondeye, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Young men carrying firewood through rice farms in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Villagers harvesting rice in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. Since there is no mechanized way of harvesting available, it is done using a simple blade to cut the rice. 

Young women carrying firewood to their homes just outside of Gbanka Potho.