Altamura Bread, bakery interior, Altamura, Bari, Apulia, Italy

Cheese factory, cattle farm of Pian Segno, Blenio valley, Canton Ticino, Switzerland

Chillies and chrysanthemum being sun dried in autumn, Huangling, Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China

Woman making argan oil in the Medina, Marrakesh, Morocco

Cured fish, meat and sausages being air dried at Yaoli ancient village, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China

Cod fish dryer on the Lyngen fjord bank, County of Troms, Norway, Northern Europe

Taoyang Alley, Jingdezhen (porcelain capital of China), Jiangxi Province, China

Kofar Mata Dye Pits, Kano, Nigeria

Cod drying on racks temporarily built for that purpose in the small fishing town of A in the Lofoten Island Group, Norway

A view of salted herring in the small fishing town of Siglufjorour, Iceland

Drying fish in Vung Tau, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Detail of salt pans of Maras, Salinas de Maras, Cuzco Region, Peru, South America

Pumpkin strips and produce being sun dried, Huangling, village dating to the Ming Dynasty, Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China

Dry stone walls, Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands, Galway Bay, County Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland

Tannery, Medina, Fes, UNESCO, Morocco