Jerry Lee's gallery

Not my photo!, original by Varin www.ipernity.com/doc/varin/3117317 Submitted to "Let´s play! Pimp my photo #29" www.ipernity.com/blog/jochen/97656 Original size available upon request, I cannot upload large sizes on a free account ...

21 images, Stitched Panorama This region of Thailand is near the elbow-bend of the great mother of river - Mehkong , underneath this rice field is a layer of potash (the largest field in Asia), then natural gas, then OIL!!, no wonder its not been promot…

The crop is unusual because its multiple shots blended and stichted together.

Phu Phoilom means mountain of gentle breeze, this is 30km south of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand. An 18 shot blended panorama.

An organic Buddhist community 30km north of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Long-term irrigation project does not offer short-term political gain... because it requires years for the results of any irrigation project to be realised. Issan villages that face annual droughts and are dubbed "chronic drought-affected villages". Thus,…

This is the oldest rice mill in the village of Ban Donwai, the wood used is of an indigenous hardwood dated over 40+ years ago, the mill operates on a crop-share basis and produces only for local self consumption ...

The Finance Ministry will review the use of millions of rai of land owned by the Treasury Department. www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/04/23/head lines/headlines_30071332.php ... The move is a bid to bring the land into production as part of a broad strateg…

World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger By DAVID STRINGER – LONDON (AP) — Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets. These possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World…

... China uses 440,000 tons of rice each day. “If we sold them every grain of rice we produced in the United States, what we export and use domestically, it would last them less than three weeks.” .... Bob Papanos, vice president, U.S. Rice Producers Ass…

.. There are two kinds of stories that we can tell about the food prices. One is an economic story, and that's a story about a perfect storm of poor harvests and a demand for meat in developing countries, which is diverting grain, and the high price of oi…

Multi-national Food Corporations ... if you imagine a sort of hourglass, at the top there are the millions of farmers who grow the food that we eat, and at the bottom there are billions of us consumers, and in the middle there are just a handful of corpo…

Rice could be even more volatile, since governments in many nations -- including across Asia's "rice bowl" -- consider rice not just a staple, but a national security priority. What makes rice supply/demand special is that almost all of the crop is cons…