Lorraine Bennery / Aerial view of farmers transplanting rice, Madagascar. December 2011.

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

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 / 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

Cyril Ruoso / Terraced rice fields, 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

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

Jurgen Freund / Rice fields and Palm trees, aerial view. Near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. 2018.

Lorraine Bennery / Person planting rice, Madagascar. December 2009.

Lorraine Bennery / Man ploughing rice field with cattle, Madagascar.

Lorraine Bennery / Worker in the rice fields, Madagascar.

Lorraine Bennery / Woman working in the rice fields, Madagascar.

Lorraine Bennery / Paddy fields in Ambositra, Madagascar

Robert Valentic / Asian vine snake (Ahaetulla prasina) male, in a terraced rice paddy field near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Wet Season.

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.

Heather Angel / Wetland with areas of rice and Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) surrounded by peaks. View from Jade Dragon Peak. Puzhehei National Wetland Park, Yunnan Province, China, 2009.

Heather Angel / Wetland with cultivated areas of rice, Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and other crops. Peaks in background, view from Jade Dragon Peak. Puzhehei National Wetland Park, Yunnan Province, China, 2009.

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...

Cyril Ruoso / Rice (Orzya sativa) field and village in valley. View from Granite Mountain, Anja Community Reserve, Madagascar. 2018.

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.

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

Eric Baccega / 2 Kayan Lahwi women with brass neck coils and traditional clothing in a rice field. The Long Neck Kayan (also called Padaung in Burmese) are a sub-group of the Karen ethnic people from Burma. They are...

Matthew Maran / Red rice on white background.

Kristel Richard / Rare semi-wild Hmong horse, stallion, standing alert in dry rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.

Kristel Richard / Rare semi-wild Hmong horse, stallion, trotting in dry rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.

Kristel Richard / Rare semi-wild Hmong horse, stallion, drinking in a rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.

Kristel Richard / Band of rare semi-wild Hmong horses running in dry rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.

Kristel Richard / Rare semi-wild Hmong horse, filly, standing alert among mares in a dry rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.