EditorialThailand: The sacred white oxen. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is an ancient Brahman ritual held each year in Bangkok at Sanam Luang in front of the Grand Palace
EditorialRice fields near a village in Siem Reap provice, Cambodia, home to the family of Ma Simet’s wife, on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times)
EditorialFritz Durst, a rice farmer, looks out over his fields in the Central Valley near Woodland, Calif., on June 19, 2021. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times)