Harvest

October 10, Chongqing, China: Farmers splash water onto freshly harvested lotus roots Photograph: EyePress/AP

October 10, Chongqing, China: Lotus roots are transported from the ponds where they were harvested Photograph: EyePress/AP

October 1, Napa Valley, California, US: Field workers with the vineyard management company "Vinewerkes" carry buckets of freshly picked merlot grapes at the end of a night harvest for Artesa Winery. Wineries in the Napa Valley are in the midst of harvesting their 2007 crop, a year that many are predicting will be a stellar vintage Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

October 8, Half Moon Bay, California, US: A row of pickup trucks hold giant pumpkins at the 34th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

October 8, Half Moon Bay, California, US: A man stands next to his giant pumpkins as he waits for them to be weighed in Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

October 8, Misaki, Japan: a farmer carries harvested rice past drying racks. Prices of this years rice harvest is trading as low as 13,500 yen, or 82 euro per 60kg, 500-800 yen less than last year due to declining demand Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

October 15, Ise, Japan: Children from various rice growing regions around Japan carry their first rice harvest of the season to make an offering at the annual Kannamesai, or Harvest Festival, held at Ise Shrine. Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

October 16, West Bank: A Palestinian woman climbs high up in a tree to pick olives Photograph: Mohammed Ballas/AP

October 16, West Bank: Olives being sorted and selected Photograph: Mohammed Ballas/AP

October 14, West Bank: An elderly woman shakes a bowl of freshly harvested olives Photograph: Saif Dahlah/AFP

October 11, Carver, Massachusettes, US: Cranberry harvesters Matt Costa and Peter Wainio use rakes to push cranberries toward an underwater pump in a flooded cranberry bog Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

October 11, Carver, US: Mike Wainio uses a rake to settle cranberries in the back of a delivery truck as the fruit tumbles off a cleaning rack at a cranberry bog Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

September 20, Chinchina, Colombia: Sacks of coffee beans are gathered in the heart of the country's so-called 'coffee region'. Colombia produces 12 % of the world's coffee Photograph: John Jairo Bonilla/EPA