Michael Major

A Traveller's Eye, A Thinker's Heart

Category: Travels for Crop Trust

  • BETTER CHICKPEAS FOR KOT SARANG

    Blight decimated the chickpea crop in the Punjab village of Kot Sarang a decade or so ago. Farmers were reluctant to plant it again. But breeders from Pakistan’s National Agricultural Research Center found types of chickpea in the National Genebank of Pakistan that had some resistance to the blight. The breeders planted those chickpeas in […]

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    BETTER CHICKPEAS FOR KOT SARANG

  • THE CITY OF ISLAM

    ‘Islamabad’ means “City of Islam” or “City of Peace” in Urdu. So, I thought it would remiss of me if I didn’t visit the Faisal Mosque while visiting the City of Islam. The Faisal Mosque was built in 1988 and named after King Faisal of Saudi Arabia who inaugurated it. It was designed by a […]

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    THE CITY OF ISLAM

  • ISLAMABAD’S SUNDAY BAZAAR

    You can get pretty much anything at the Sunday (AKA Margalla) Bazaar, even on a Friday. Open three days a week, the bazaar is the place to go in Islamabad to purchase essential items at competitive prices. It sprawls across 25 acres with 2,760 stalls. Carpets, clothes, fresh food, techie stuff and even soccer balls. […]

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    ISLAMABAD’S SUNDAY BAZAAR

  • THE CANALS OF THE MEKONG DELTA

    Back in the early 19th century the Emperor Gia Long, the founder of the Nguyễn Dynasty, had the foresight to build canals for irrigation, transportation and military purposes in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The French colonizers thought that was a pretty good idea as well and they enlarged the network in the mid-19th to mid-20th century. […]

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    THE CANALS OF THE MEKONG DELTA

  • CAN THO

    I arrived in Can Tho, Vietnam’s gateway city to the Mekong Delta, after an all-night flight and a three-hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City. I was too tired to set out and explore the city … and it quickly became too hot and humid. So I did the lazy photographer method and just set […]

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    CAN THO

  • THE VARIED PERSONALITIES OF MALUNGA

    The last time it rained in Malunga was in January. The rainy season ended early in this part of the Motobo District of southwestern Zimbabwe, on the fringe of the Kalahari. The village only recorded 181 mm of rain during the rainy season, due to an El Niño-induced drought. The region is arid regardless and […]

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    THE VARIED PERSONALITIES OF MALUNGA

  • GOOD TO BE ORGANISED

    For three days, my Crop Trust colleague, Beri, and I have been visiting farmers in Zimbabwe. As we arrive to each destination, we find a group ranging from 25 to 200 of farmers awaiting us under the shade of a tree or two. Without fail we are greeted with song and dance, which continue throughout […]

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    GOOD TO BE ORGANISED

  • A SUNDAY STROLL IN HARARE

    Jet lag got the best of me so instead of sleeping in on my first day in Zimbabwe, I woke up at dawn. It looked like a beautiful spring day in Harare so I put on my walking shoes to explore. There’s always one destination I aim for when I arrive to a new place: […]

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    A SUNDAY STROLL IN HARARE

  • ASK THE WOMEN

    A long time ago a client asked me to document a forestry project in the rural town of Hojancha in northern Costa Rica. I took photos of proud men standing by amazing stands of introduced eucalypts, Gmelina and teak. The trees were grown for both timber and firewood. But I learned the women weren’t too […]

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    ASK THE WOMEN
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