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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Family members: Soumana Natomo, 46, sits flanked by his two wives, Fatoumata Toure, 33 and Pama Kondo, 35. Soumana and Fatoumata's children are daughter Tena, 4 months, daughter Fourou, 12, son Kansy, 4, and son and daughter Mama, 8, and Fatoumata, 10. Soumana and Pama's children are son Mamadou, 10, son Mama, 13, and son and daughter Kantie, 16, and Pai, 18. To Pama's left is Kadia Foune, 33, Soumana's sister-in-law, with her children Kantie, 1, and Mariyam, 8. The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 206).
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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). Fatoumata Toure. 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. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Pama Kondo. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) 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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  • Soumana Natomo (far left, in blue) walks into the village market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) 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. Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets, like the one pictured here, are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After pounding rice into flour in a large wooden mortar, Pama Kondo sifts it to get rid of any remaining hulls. Behind her, 10-year-old Fatoumata (daughter of Fatoumata Toure, Pama's co-wife) does much the same with some sorghum. Can she foresee a day when she will no longer have to pound grain? "That's what children are for," she replies seriously. 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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  • On market days, Fatoumata Toure stops cooking early to work with her co-wife Pama Kondo. They acquire and unload grain in bulk and then sell it in smaller quantities to individuals and families. Soumana Natomo spends much of his time overseeing his working wives. Occasionally, he makes a trip to their single-room storehouse to replenish the grain his wives are selling. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 211). 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). In the predawn light, with little Tena bundled onto her back, Fatoumata Toure crouches in the street outside her apartment and lights a fire under the griddle she uses to cook ngome, thick pancakes made from finely pounded corn or millet flour, oil, and salt. Her house is only a minute's walk from the larger home of her co-wife Pama Kondo. Fatoumata repeats this streetside routine every day except Saturday, when she sells ngome breakfast cakes at the village market. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 211). 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). The morning that the family broke the news to Pai that she was to marry her cousin, Baba, they all had breakfast together in the courtyard of Soumana's house. According to custom, the couple then spent the day apart, Pai weeping openly over the loss of her childhood. The next day at the wedding party, Pai's mother Pama was dry-eyed while Fatoumata wept. She said that Pai had always been there to help with the babies and that she would be missed. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 213). 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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  • 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On Sunday, ignoring a half-eaten tomato in her henna-stained hand, 18-year-old Pai somberly contemplates what she has just learned: later today she will formally wed her first cousin, Baba Nientao, and then move to his home in Ivory Coast. None of the parents attend the ceremony. Instead, Pai's girlfriends raucously lead her (hidden under a shawl) to the Town Hall, where she and Baba sign their marriage license alone with the mayor. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 214). 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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  • .Before the family broke the news to Pai that she was to marry her cousin, Baba, the imam, elders and other men of the family pray at the marriage agreement. According to custom, Pai will not know about the marriage arrangements until the morning of the ceremony. The couple will then spend the day apart, Pai weeping openly over the loss of her childhood. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) 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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  • Earlier this morning, 18-year-old Pai somberly contemplated what she had just learned: later today she was to formally wed her first cousin, Baba Nientao, and then move to his home in Ivory Coast. None of the parents attend the ceremony. Instead, Pai's girlfriends raucously lead her (hidden under a shawl, shown here) to the Town Hall, where she and Baba sign their marriage license alone with the mayor. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 215). 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). Pama Kondo (center, in blue) at the wedding celebration of her daughter Pai. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) 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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  • An American documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT police team show being watched by Soumana Natomo and other men and boys in the village of Kouakourou on the banks of the Niger River in Mali. There is no electricity in the village. The television is powered by a car battery that is charged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the pharmacy behind the men. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Pama sweeps the courtyard where she and her co-wife Fatoumata cook the meals for their large family. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55). 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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  • Two local girls washing dishes in the Niger River. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project 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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  • Tilapia from the Niger River being cooked over a wood fire in Kouakourou, Mali. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 205).
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  • Enthusiastic pupils pay close attention in an adult class on budget techniques. Kouakourou, Mali. (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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  • Woman winnowing grain in a village outside of Mopti, Mali near the Niger River. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Store with non-perishables and dry goods in Djenne, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Toilet on a Niger River boat that dumps into the river in Mali.
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