Heather Angel / Black sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) cultivated for sucrose in the stem, obtained by crushing. China.

Ashley Cooper / Ethanol plant at Chikwawa in the Shire Valley, Malawi, March.

Ashley Cooper / An ethanol plant at Chikwawa in the Shire Valley, Malawi, March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Sugar cane (Saccharum) crop growing in the Daintree rainforest area of North of Queensland, Australia. February 2010.

Gavin Hellier / Sugar cane press extracting fresh cane juice, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, January 2018. Hellier

Gavin Hellier / Sugar cane press extracting fresh cane juice, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, January 2018. Hellier

Pete Oxford / Sugarcane barges (punts) with various Egrets, Wales, Georgetown, Guyana, South America

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of Sugar Cane production, Guyana, South America, December 2015.

Pete Oxford / Hope canal, an irrigation canal in East Demerara Water Conservancy (for sugar cane and rice production) coastal area of Guyana, South America

Pete Oxford / Hope canal, an irrigation canal in East Demerara Water Conservancy (for sugar cane and rice production) coastal area of Guyana, South America

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of loading sugar on barge to export, coastal Guyana, South America

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of sugarcane barges (punts) East Guyana, South America

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Farm produce outside house with yam, casava and pumpkins, with sugar cane press. Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. July 2010.

Cyril Ruoso / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) eating sugar cane, ABC Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jabruson / Street vendor with cart of sugar cane. Northern Cameroon, September 2009.

Michele Westmorland / Sugar cane (Saccharam officinarum) passing down chute at the River Antoine Rum Distillery, the oldest rum distillery in the Eastern Caribbean. Grenada, West-Indies, Caribbean, May 2009. No release.

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of sugar cane fields being harvested, Philippines

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Sugar cane plantation and dam, Cerrado region, Northern Mato Grosso State, Western Brazil.

Juergen Freund / Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) field from the air, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia

Patricio Robles Gil / Aerial view of Sugar cane fields, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

David Noton / Dirt track through sugar cane plantation, nr Kendal, central Barbados

David Noton / Dirt track through sugar cane plantation, nr Kendal, central Barbados

Patricio Robles Gil / Sugar Cane worker using machete to cut down cane, Fiji, South Pacific

Jean E. Roche / Sugar cane processing plant harvested canes Guadeloupe, Caribbean Marie Galante. August 2000

Jean E. Roche / Sugar cane processing plant juice extraction Guadeloupe, Caribbean Marie Galante. August 2000

SIMON KING / Male Indian Elephant {Elephas maximus} feeding in sugar cane field, Sri Lanka

Dave Watts / Sugar cane harvest, Queensland, Australia

Patricio Robles Gil / Sugar cane harvest, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Patricio Robles Gil / Sugar cane worker, Fiji, South Pacific

Jean E. Roche / Sugar cane processing plant with large fermentation vats, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Caribbean 2000.

Jean E. Roche / Rural landscape with Sugar cane crop, Guadeloupe, Caribbean 2000.

Staffan Widstrand / Sugar cane harvest, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa

David Tipling / Domestic Water buffalo working to run mill which processes raw sugar cane, traditional farming method, Delhi, India

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Giant sugar cane borer moth {Castnia licus} on pineapple where it lays its eggs, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Dai woman, ethnic minority group, harvesting sugar cane, Yunnan, China

Onne van der Wal / Transporting sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) on bicycles, Cuba.

Onne van der Wal / People working a sugar cane press from the 1800's, driven by water, for the Saint Antoine Rum distillery on Grenada, Caribbean.

Pete Oxford / Dai woman working in sugar cane field (ethnic minority group) Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Dai man working in sugar cane field (ethnic minority group) Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

Ashley Cooper / Sugar cane (Saccharum sp.) crop growing on coastal cliffs, Jardim do Mar, Madeira. March.

Tom Vierus / Two Indo-Fijian sugar cane farmers loading crop of harvested Sugar-cane (Saccharum sp.) on to truck, Vanua Levu, Fiji. August, 2019.

Tom Vierus / Smoke and fire across burning Sugar cane fields after the harvest, Vanua Levu, Fiji. October, 2019.

Orsolya Haarberg / Levada in Folhadal. A levada is an irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira. In Madeira, the levadas originated out of the necessity of bringing large amoun...

Nigel Cattlin / Ring spot (Leptosphaeria sacchari) fungal disease lesions on sugar cane leaf, Thailand, South East Asia.

Nigel Cattlin / Asiatic pink borer / Purple stem borer (Sesamia inferens) caterpillar inside damaged Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) stem, Thailand, South East Asia.

Nigel Cattlin / Sugar cane smut (Sporisorium scitamineum) smutted tassel or whip caused by a fungal disease on sugar cane (Saccharum sp.), Thailand, South East Asia.

Terry Whittaker / Young man selling sugar cane on market stall. Mandroseza, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 2019.

Juergen Freund / Fire in sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) crop at night, burning makes crop easier to harvest. Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia. 2016.

Juergen Freund / Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) harvest delivered to sugar refinery by freight train. Bundaberg, Southern Queensland. September 2016.

Juergen Freund / Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) harvest with combine harvester. Queensland, Australia. September 2016.

Nigel Cattlin / Neat rows of weed-free young sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) crop with palms behind on the island of Negros in the Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Interrow cropping with rows of young sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) and peanuts (Arachis hypogea), Negros, Philippines, February

Nigel Cattlin / Interrow cropping with rows of young sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) and peanuts (Arachis hypogea), Negros, Philippines, February

Nigel Cattlin / Water buffalo pulling cart of cut sugar cane surrounded by harvested canes, with crop harvest behind, Negros, Philippines, February