Street food, Delhi, India, Asia

Old market, historic old town, Poznan, Poland, Europe

Steamed rice dumpling in lotus leaf, Hong Kong, China, Asia

Close-up of the head of a roasted pig in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Goombay Festival in Bahama Village, Petronia Street, Key West, Florida, United States of America, North America

Food vendors, Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, Central America

Food stalls on side of Mekong River, Vientiane, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Street food stall, Mumbai, India, South Asia

Sweet maker, Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Making chocolates by hand

Man cooking fish on a boat on the Golden Horn with the Galata Tower and Beyoglu district in the background, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

A young man prepares samosas, Bhaktapur, Nepal, Asia

Charcoal grilled sardines, Costa del Sol, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

Pizza from the wood-fired oven, Italy, Europe

Street food of Kampot, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

A food stall at the Indy market in Phuket old town, Phuket, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Morning food market, Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Morning food market, Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Claypot chicken, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

BBQ chicken cook on the street, Pokhara, Nepal, Asia

Pizza from the wood-fired oven, Italy, Europe

Steam cooking, Seoul, South Korea, Asia

Food vendors, Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, Central America

African meal, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in Malawi.

Mrs Vijayalakshmi Neelakandan with complete meal in a thali covered with a banana leaf with all the dishes - rasam, pickles, salad, seasoned yogurt, rice, meat stew, potatoes, salt, fried fish, curried eggs.

Street vendor selling steamed dumplings, Shanghai, China, Asia

Korean restaurant, Namdaemun Market, Seoul, South Korea, Asia

Korean restaurant, Namdaemun Market, Seoul, South Korea, Asia

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in malawi.

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in Malawi.

Burundi nduwamahoro, active non,violence peace building project, supported by sciaf. In the home of grandmother ntezahorigwa pelagie, 60. The family preparing food: taking beans from their pods, cleaning peas and peeling cassava, their staple diet.

Uganda cooking matoke, steamed bananas, the staple diet, on a large open fire for a feast day. kangulumira, kayunga district

India - environment: children carrying firewood. Mattappatty village, tamil nadu

Bangladesh alpona ritchil, a woman of the garo tribal minority chops onions and garlic, ready for cooking, haluaghat, mymensingh region

Street kitchen, pakistan. Making pokharas (fried chappatis) at a food stall

A villager woman in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. She is cooking on a traditional clay oven, fuelled by biofuel (rice stalks), low carbon cooking.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a cook preparing chapatis on a biofuel stove.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Hematology Analyzer for analyzing blood in one of the labs in the specialist cancer hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows solar panels that focus the suns rays on heat exchangers to boil oil, which is then sent down to the kitchens below to heat the cookers.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows the solar air conditioning for the Ashram's hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Varian nuclear proton therapy machine in the specialist cancer hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a woman planting trees for onward growth in the Ashrams forests.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows the girls school.

Tagines cooking on a cafe stove in Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Kebab Restaurant, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

Man cooking South Indian style scrambled eggs at a roadside dhaba in Pondicherry India

Food stalls in the evening, Djemaa el Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Kebab Restaurant, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

Kebab Restaurant, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

A woman subsistence farmer cooking on a traditional clay oven, using rice stalks as biofuel in the Sunderbans, Ganges, Delta, India. the area is very low lying and vulnerable to sea level rise. All parts of the rice crop are used, and the villagers life is very self sufficient, with a tiny carbon footprint.

Preparing a classical conch salad from the Bahamas, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Colombia baker taking rolls out of the oven of his bakery in ciudad bolivar, bogota

Burundi nduwamahoro, active non,violence peace building project, supported by sciaf. In the home of grandmother ntezahorigwa pelagie, 60. The family preparing food: taking beans from their pods, cleaning peas and peeling cassava, their staple diet.

Margib, Sughd Province, Tajikistan. August 15, 2021. Baking flat bread in a traditional wood fired oven. Editorial Use Only

South African boerewors sausage cooking on a barbeque.

Close-up of a chicken tajine

Uganda typical foods of the country. cassava. kayunga district

Margib, Sughd Province, Tajikistan. August 15, 2021. Baking flat bread in a wood fired oven. Editorial Use Only

Cooking, outside kitchen, Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

CAMBODIA Woman cutting banana stem for cooking. Ban Bung village, Stung Treng district

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. November 2, 2021. Tacos being cooked by a street vendor.

Burundi nduwamahoro, active non,violence peace building project, supported by sciaf. In the home of grandmother ntezahorigwa pelagie, 60. The family preparing food: taking beans from their pods, cleaning peas and peeling cassava, their staple diet.

Guatemala woman making tortillas, chajul, el quiche

India - women - labor: woman cooking rice, pinkulam, kerala

A monk preparing rice in the monastery of Amarapura, close to the U Bein teak bridge, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Food vendor cooking Thai style donuts, Chatuchak Weekend Market, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. Gyro meat being prepared for cooking.

Nicaragua woman preparing food in her small local restaurant, managua

Bangladesh farid pathang and son homar of the garo tribal minority, clean fish ready for cooking, haluaghat, mymensingh region

Uganda typical foods of the country. avocado. kayunga district

Manshiyat Naser, Garbage City, Cairo, Egypt. Baker making fresh pita bread, known as aish, in Manshiyat Naser, Garbage City, Cairo.

At the central market of Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Uganda the home of ntanda miria, kayunga district. enjoying a relaxing breakfast outdoors

Colombia jasmine abufe grilling fish on a woodstove in her house beside the rio magdalena, barrancabermeja

East timor family of armanda suni and sebastian anin and children preparing meal of corn and vegetables, aosera village, oecussi-ambeno

Colombia jasmine abufe grilling fish on a woodstove in her house beside the rio magdalena, barrancabermeja

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. November 2, 2021. Tacos being cooked by a street vendor.

Villagers cooking a meal, mattappatty, tamil nadu

Thebes, Luxor, Egypt. February 24, 2022. Baker making pita bread with an automated oven.

Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Preparing food at the main kitchen.

Manshiyat Naser, Garbage City, Cairo, Egypt. February 14, 2022. Young man selling fresh pita bread, known as aish, in Manshiyat Naser, Garbage City, Cairo.

Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico. November 14, 2021. A barbeque restaurant in Mulege.

East timor. Husband and wife with maize seeds and onions which they will plant next year, oecussi-ambeno

Uganda the home of ntanda miria, kayunga district. enjoying a relaxing breakfast outdoors

Colombia slum dweller, altos de cazuca, bogota

Thebes, Luxor, Egypt. Fresh baked pastries for sale in Luxor.

Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica

Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica

Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica

Hog roast

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica

Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica

Arctic BBQ. Svalbard, Norway

Fire oven at Estancia Mimosa, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America

Arctic BBQ. Svalbard, Norway

Catering students at Kendal College, Cumbria England, United Kingdom, Europe

A local venison butcher and a chef at Kendal College explain to catering students how to butcher and cook venison, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia