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Enrique Isagon

IRRIGATING HOPE IN YEMEN’S LOWLANDS

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Enrique Isagon (right), a 24-year-old UN Volunteer Mining Engineer from the Philippines, and Ernest Latham (left), a civil
engineer from the United Kingdom joined a Yemeni farmer at an irrigation reservoir developed under a FAO project in Yemen’s
semi-arid Tihamah lowlands in 1972. The initiative funded by UNDP assessed the region’s agricultural potential and included a
demonstration farm near Wadi Zabid in the Republic of Yemen. [UN Archive/F. Mattioli]