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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Soumana Natomo of Kouakourou, Mali, wraps his head and face for protection against many different elements. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Glancing up at a visitor, Fourou: the twelve-year-old daughter of Soumana Natomo's second wife, Fatoumata, takes a momentary break from the family breakfast of thin rice porridge cooked with sour milk. Like most families in their village in Mali, the Natomos eat outdoors, sitting on low stools around a communal pot in the courtyard of their house. The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • By 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Kouakourou's weekly market has transformed the usually quiet shoreline of this Niger River backwater into a throng of bustling, thatch-shaded stalls and sharp-prowed traders' boats from up the river and down. Soumana goes to the market every week to buy and sell grain with his two wives, Pama and Fatoumata. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 209). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • On a warm Saturday afternoon, a young boy with fresh watermelon slices uses the tray for shade as he walks through Kouakourou, Mali, seeking buyers. He pauses by the outdoor barbershop where Soumana Natomo and a group of men are watching a documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT team. Their black-and-white TV is powered by a car battery charged by a solar panel on the roof of the small pharmacy next door. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 217). This image is featured alongside the Natomo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A slaughtered cow rolls on a cart through the dusty mud-brick village of Kouakourou, Mali, destined for sale that day at the nearby Saturday market. Because the town has no electricity, and thus no refrigeration, this family will sell all their meat by sunset of the same day that the cow was slaughtered. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 210). This image is featured alongside the Natomo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Vegetable gardens in Kouakourou, Mali irrigated with Niger River water. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A young boy with elephantiasis looks in on his school classroom during a math class. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits- in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 67). /// This image is featured alongside the Aboubakar family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 56-57 for a family portrait.)
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  • Sitting near the food distribution center at the Breidjing Refugee Camp right after sunrise, a Sudanese refugee woman patiently sifts through the sand to pluck out any bits of grain that might have dropped to the ground during the previous day's ration disbursement. The bowl on the ground is a standard-size, two-quart coro used to measure grain. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 61). /// This image is featured alongside the Aboubakar family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 56-57 for a family portrait.)
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  • In the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad, women wash clothes and themselves in water from the nearly dry riverbed, called a wadi. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, home to 30,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). As she arranges her clothes in the chilly desert dawn, D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, a Sudanese widow at a refugee camp in neighboring Chad, watches the pot of water she is heating to make aiysh (porridge). Anticipating the new moon at the end of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast, she is preparing a celebratory meal for her five children. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 21).
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Part of Breidjing Village (at sunset) in Eastern Chad, near the border with Sudan. Very close to this village is the sprawling Breidjing refugee camp, sheltering 30,000 Sudanese who have fled the ethnic cleansing/genocide in the bordering Darfur region. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Seen from the minaret of a mosque in Cairo, a teenage boy delivers bread. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 121).
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  • Cow hooves and legs hanging outside a butcher shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Garbanzo beans for sale in paper cones by the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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