Nick Upton / Arable field with young Maize / Sweetcorn seedlings (Zea mays) growing in neat parallel rows, Wiltshire, UK, late spring 2009

Richard Du Toit / Maize (Zea mays) crops burning during fire in dry season, Gauteng, South Africa

Justine Evans / Adolescent male Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) crop raiding maize from local farmers, "Jeje" from study group in Bossou, Guinea

Justine Evans / Juvenile male Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) "Pele", feeding on stolen maize after crop raiding from local village, part of the Bossou study group, Guinea

Richard Du Toit / Maize (Zea mays) crops, Gauteng, South Africa

Jean E. Roche / Crop of Strawberry maize, France

Nigel Bean / Maize crop fields bordering forest of Mount Kilum, Cameroon, 1997

Gerry Ellis / Maize (Zea mays x hybrid) ear of sweet hybrid plant, cultivated on Sauvie Island, Oregon

Jim Brandenburg / Maize (Zea mays) plants suffering from dust storms, erosion, and drought, Minnesota

Pete Oxford / Indian farmer carrying maize, Pisac, Urubamba Valley, Peru

Konrad Wothe / Maize (Zea mays) field, comprised of cultivated young plants, Germany

WILLIAM OSBORN / Wood pigeon feeds on maize crop, England

Mike Read / Maize crop with Mont St Michel in background Normandy France

WILLIAM OSBORN / Wood pigeon feeds on maize crop. (Columba palumbus) Wilts England

WILLIAM OSBORN / Wood pigeons feed on maize crop. (Columba palumbus) Wilts England