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A woman in an orange sari and white headscarf bends over to plant rice seedlings in a flooded paddy field in Tamil Nadu, India.

A rural woman harvesting pearl millet, locally known as 'mahangu', placing it into a basket while carrying another basket on her head near Rundu, about 750 kilometres northeast of Windhoek along the border with Angola.

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