Nigel Cattlin / Bacterial blight (Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae) disease lesions on Rice (Oryza sativa) crop, Luzon, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) disease infected nodes on Rice (Oryza sativa) plant stems, Luzon, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Symptoms of Neck blast (Magnaporthe grisea) on Rice (Oryza sativa) plants in ear, Luzon, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Leaf tipping on Rice (Oryza sativa) caused by Leaf scald (Microdochium oryzae) disease, Thailand

Nigel Cattlin / Rice leaf folder moth (Cnaphalocrocis medinalis) caterpillar of pest species in folded Rice (Oryza sativa) leaf , Luzon, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Tungro virus (Rice (Oryza sativa) tungro bacilliform virus) on diseased, damaged Rice (Oryza sativa) plot, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Sheath rot (Sarocladium oryzae) lesions and necrosis on Rice (Oryza sativa) flagleaf and aborted ears, Luzon, Philippines

Nigel Cattlin / Blue colour variation of Green paddy leafhopper, (Nephottetix virescens) a biotype of this pest species

Nigel Cattlin / Eggs of Golden apple snail / Channelled apple snail (Pomacea caniculata) in a Rice (Oryza sativa) paddy, Luzon, Philippines

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Rice farmers pounding freshly harvested rice, Port Loko district, Sierra Leone, 2004-2005.

Cyril Ruoso / Terraced rice paddy fields, Ubud area, Bali, Indonesia

Nature Production / Aerial view of rice paddy fields (Oryza sativa) fixed-point observation of seasonal changes, ploughed fields in early winter, Shiga, Japan, November, sequence 7/8

Nature Production / Aerial view of rice paddy fields (Oryza sativa) fixed-point observation of seasonal changes, summer, Shiga, Japan, early August, sequence 4/8

Juergen Freund / Ears of rice (Oryza sp) growing in rice paddy fields on the Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines. UNESCO World Heritage Site 2008

Jose B. Ruiz / Field of cultivated Rice (Oryza sativa) at dawn, Donana NP, Spain

Nigel Cattlin / Technician in experimental greenhouse with Rice (Oryza sativa) experiments including genetic modification. International Rice Research Institute, Luzon, Philippines.

Nigel Cattlin / Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) feeding on Rice (Oryza sativa) grains, a pest of stored grain products.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) growing on terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Coffee shop with Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) on counter. Many civets are drugged to sleep quietly and not escape. Coffee beans are fed to civets, ferment in the gut, excreted and use...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Two men walking on path through Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Narrow Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Palms growing in front of Rice (Oryza sativa) terrace. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rice (Oryza sativa) terraces. Jatiluwih Green Land, Bali, Indonesia. 2015.

Heather Angel / Chinese farmer wearing traditional bamboo hat ploughing flooded Rice (Oryza sativa) paddy with Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Xingping, Nr Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. October 19...

Matthew Maran / Red rice on white background.

Ashley Cooper / Woman with solar cooker used to cook food for the school students at Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, near Vadodara, India. December.

Ashley Cooper / Looking down from the air onto rice paddies in the Shire Valley, Malawi, Africa.

Ashley Cooper / Looking down from the air onto rice paddies and Maize crops in the Shire Valley, Malawi, Africa.

Ashley Cooper / Looking down on rice crops in the lower Shire Valley, Malawi, Africa.

Ashley Cooper / Woman drying her rice crop in the Sunderbans, Ganges, Delta, India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Rice crop drying, Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Rice crops harvested by hand in the Sunderbans, Ganges, Delta, India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Woman carrying Rice crops harvested by hand in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India.

Ashley Cooper / Man carrying Rice crop harvested by hand in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. 2013

Ashley Cooper / Village woman putting rice crop into container in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta, Eastern India. December 2013.

Sylvain Cordier / Rice terraces at Laohuzui, Yunnan, China.

Sylvain Cordier / Rice terraces, at Laohuzui, Yunnan, China.

Sylvain Cordier / Rice terracesnear Duoyishu village, Yuanyang, Yunnan, China.

Sylvain Cordier / Rice terraces at sunrise, near Duoyishu village, Yunnan Province, China.

Loic Poidevin / Women harvesting rice, Burkina Faso, December 2017

Loic Poidevin / Women harvesting rice, Burkina Faso, December 2017.

Loic Poidevin / Woman collecting rice, Burkina Faso, Africa 2017

Lucas Bustamante / Local girl and her family was preparing rice. Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Moramanga, Madagascar, ??May 2017

Ingo Arndt / Rice (Oryza sativa) crop growing in terraced fields, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar, December 2013.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman harvesting rice fields around the town of Dali, Yunnan, China. September 2016.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Harvested rice fields around the town of Dali, Yunnan, China. September 2016.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Harvested rice fields around the town of Dali, Yunnan, China. September 2016.

Daniel Heuclin / Sumatran farmer drying rice crop, Sumatra, June 2016.

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) field and worker, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) field and workers, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) field with tractor and wading birds, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Rice (Oryza sp) fields, Guyana

Franco Banfi / Rice paddy field, Selat, Bali Island, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Franco Banfi / Rice paddy fields, Bali Island, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Franco Banfi / Rice paddy fields, Bali Island, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Suzi Eszterhas / Village woman threshing rice. Kaziranga National Park, India, April 2012.

Suzi Eszterhas / Village woman threshing rice. Kaziranga National Park, India, April 2012.

Pete Oxford / Mising woman pounding rice. Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising woman pounding rice. Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising woman winnowing rice. Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising tribe woman threshing rice by foot, Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising tribe woman threshing rice by foot, Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Ao Naga woman carrying rice basket, Mokokchung district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman pounding rice, Mon district, Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman and daughter pounding rice, Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga people pounding rice, Mon district, Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga boy pounding rice, in communal house with Buffalo skulls. Mon district, Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga girl carrying rice basket on her back, Mon district, Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman and children carrying rice baskets. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga rice terraces. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga winnowing rice in house, Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman pounding rice. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga rice baskets. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Adi Gallong women harvesting rice, Adi Gallong Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India. October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Adi Gallong women harvesting rice, Adi Gallong Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India. October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Adi Gallong rice terraces, Adi Gallong Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Adi Gallong rice terraces, Adi Gallong Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Apatani winnowing rice using Yapyo made of bamboo, Apatani Tribe, Ziro Valley, Himalayan Foothills, Arunachal Pradesh.North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Elderly woman working on Apatani rice paddies, Apatani Tribe, Ziro Valley, Himalayan Foothills, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Apatani rice paddies, Apatani Tribe, Ziro Valley, Himalayan Foothills, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Nyshi rice paddies.Yazali Village, Nyshi Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pete Oxford / Nyshi rice paddies.Yazali Village, Nyshi Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Pal Hermansen / Different varieties of rice seeds, showing variation in shape and colour morphology.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Dayak womengrinding rice, in traditional longhouse, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. August 2010.