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Harvesting sugarcane, São Paulo, Brazil. The plantation covers some 50,000 hectares and is machine-harvested whole before being crushed: half is refined into raw sugar and the rest is turned into ethanol for automotive fuel. Sugarcane growers here are forbidden to burn the fields. The left-over leaves and cane pulp can be burned by power plants which put electricity back into the national grid, and the organic residue returns to the fields for fertilizer.

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Harvesting sugarcane, São Paulo, Brazil. The plantation covers some 50,000 hectares and is machine-harvested whole before being crushed: half is refined into raw sugar and the rest is turned into ethanol for automotive fuel. Sugarcane growers here are forbidden to burn the fields. The left-over leaves and cane pulp can be burned by power plants which put electricity back into the national grid, and the organic residue returns to the fields for fertilizer.

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