An altar is erected and piled high with offerings to the invisible visitors: flowers, ribbons, coloured candles, tamales (steam-cooked cornmeal dough), fruit and corn.

BBC: Mexico's Day of the Dead

The countryside around here forms some of Mali's richest farmland - flat fields of corn and rice interspersed with big fruit trees.

BBC: Africa

Roadside carts sell snacks and drinks, from fruit punch to arepas (corn cakes) and salted green mango.

BBC: Reclaiming the streets in Bogota

It specializes in so-called nonrow agricultural chemicals--herbicides and pesticides for fruit and nut trees instead of crops like corn grown in rows.

FORBES: Chemical Balance

For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.

ECONOMIST: Growth and geography

These megasacks, made out of corn starch, hold 2.5 grams of tea, flowers, herbs, dried fruit and sometimes cacao nibs.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This year, fruit and vegetable farmers will be getting more of the help that growers of cotton and corn have had for decades.

NPR: Farm Bill Offers Aid to Fruit, Vegetable Growers