Luiz Claudio Marigo / Toasting manioc flour over fire, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Pulping manioc roots before toasting to make flour, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Sifting pulped manioc roots to making flour, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Toasting manioc flour over fire, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Peeling and washing manioc roots to make flour. Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Cooking manioc flour cakes, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Peeling manioc roots to make flour. Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Peeling manioc roots to make flour. Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Yanomami indian making manioc porridge, Maturaca village, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Cooking manioc flour cakes, Piagacu Purus Sustainable Devt Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Toasting manioc flour over fire, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Peeling manioc roots to make flour. Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Toasting manioc flour over fire, Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Washing peeled manioc roots to make flour. Mamiraua Ecological Station, Amazonas, Brazil

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Aerial shot tracking over an area of rainforest cleared by slash and burn for cultivation of crops including maize, manioc and banana, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Jen Guyton / Man selling mandioca, or cassava root, on the side of the road near Nampula, Mozambique. June 2011

Daniel Heuclin / Chips of Manioc (Manihot esculenta) drying, Sumatra. July 2016.

Daniel Heuclin / Chips of Manioc (Manihot esculenta) drying, Sumatra. July 2016.

Pete Oxford / Woman kneading manioc dough, Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Africa, June 2013.

Pete Oxford / Manioc dough after kneading, Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Africa, June 2013.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Toasting manioc flour in Sao Joao community on the shore of Uauacu Lake, Piagacu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve, Purus River, Amazonas State, Brazil. April 2004.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Women making cakes of manioc (called "beiju") in community Cuiuan, Piagacu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve, Purus River, Amazonas State, Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Man toasting manioc flour in the Amazon Upland Rainforest, Piagacu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve, Purus River, Amazonas State, Brazil. April 2004

Justine Evans / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) crop raiding adult and baby feeding on manioc plants, from the Bossou study group, Guinea

Jouan & Rius / Cassava / Manioc (Manihot esculenta) harvest drying in Betsileo village, Highlands, Madagascar

MORLEY READ / Quechua indian girl making chincha from manioc tubers. Ecuador

MORLEY READ / Quechua indians clear rainforest to plant Manioc and Banana crops, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Machiguenga indian making beer from manioc Timpia community, Lower Urubamba river, Amazonia, Peru

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Drinking manioc flour with water, Mamiraua Ecol. Stn., Amazonas, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Making manioc flour, Mamiraua Ecol. Stn., Amazonas, Brazil

Daniel Gomez / Woman making Cassava / Manioc {Manihot esculenta} flour, Para State, Brazil.

Daniel Gomez / Woman making Cassava / Manioc {Manihot esculenta} flour, Para State, Brazil.

Daniel Gomez / Cassava / Manioc {Manihot esculenta} flour, Para State, Brazil.

Pete Oxford / Machiguenga Indian mixing manioc for local brew. Timpia Community, Lower Urubamba River, Amazon rainforest, Peru. South America

Nick Garbutt / Betsimisaraka women planting manioc after slash and burn near Mantadia NP, Madagascar

Nigel Cattlin / Pile of harvested cassava / manioc (Manihot esculenta) starchy tuberous roots used to extract tapioca, Pattaya, Thailand

Karine Aigner / Women cultivating Cassava (Manihot esculenta) plants. Democratic Republic of Congo. May 2017.

Karine Aigner / Close up of a Cassava (Manihot esculenta) leaf, Democratic Republic of Congo

Karine Aigner / Woman holding Cassava (Manihot esculenta) stems and leaves which are removed before harvesting the roots. Democratic Republic of Congo. May 2017.

Karine Aigner / Women harvesting Cassava (Manihot esculenta), Democratic Republic of Congo. May 2017.