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  • Jammed into the narrow valley between Manila Bay and the Sierra Madre Mountains, Metro Manila's more than 14 million people, many of them very poor, use every square foot of available space. Makeshift shanties jostle high-rise apartments; neighborhoods built on stilts spill into tidal flats, rivers, and the sea. Backed up against a set of railroad tracks, this street-food vendor squeezes her modest business into a space hardly bigger than a U.S. walk-in closet. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 237). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Young boys and men sleep on a pavement outside the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso floating home on the Salimoes River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Breakfast-time at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Munna Kailash a rickshaw driver ferries his wife, niece, and son on a shopping trip in  in Varanas, Utta Pradesh province, India,. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. India has about 10 million cycle rickshaws, including passenger and cargo pedal carts. Although Munna owns his rickshaw, most rickshaw pullers rent from fleet owners for about $0.60 (USD) per day. A typical puller in a big city earns about $4 to $5 (USD) per day. Although slower than two-cycle smoke-spewing auto-rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws don't pollute the air, and the only heat they add to the atmosphere is from the bodies of their drivers.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal and his wife Phurba eat inside their handmade yak wool tent home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A woman carries a child outside a shack in a slum settlement near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A man sleeps on a canoe on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • A Himba boy with his mouth covered with cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Young boys eat out of an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) in Okapembambu, a village of the Himba tribespeople  in northwestern Namibia during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia , sits inside her home with her child. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba girls play a game outside their home in Okapembambu village in northwestern Namibia.
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  • A boy digs for water from a nearly dry riverbed (called a wadi) in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. 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 the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares a meal inside her riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil while her grandchildren play with a turtle that they will eat for a special meal.    (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.
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  • Solange and Francisco Da Silva Correia's grandchildren leave their grandparents' riverside home for school near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.  (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   They  use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in the nearby town of Caviana in Amazonia, Brazil, 20 minutes downriver.
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  • Breakfast before a school day at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Families go about their daily business on a houseboat on the Solimoes River in Brazil after a passenger disembarks from a riverboat that stopped at their floating house.  Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • During chilly mornings and evenings in northern Namibia's rainy season, the women of Okapembambu village draw steaming buckets of milk from their cows, despite the distraction of ankle-deep mud and manure. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milk and its by-products are the Himba's most important source of nutrition. The women add a bit of soured milk to the fresh liquid to hasten the process of natural fermentation, and they shake calabash gourds for hours to make butter. They drink some of the soured milk, use some to make their cornmeal porridge, and mix butterfat with ochre to make their body cream.
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  • Children play just outside Marble Moahi's fence in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana.  (Marble Moahi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Tibetan nomads inside a handmade yak-wool tent, which serves as their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan nomads at home in their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Yak dung, an important source of fuel for nomadic herders in the Tibetan Plateau, is spread out to dry in the sun outside Karsal's tent home.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pilgrims cook dough in the ash of a campfire near the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipra's holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles.
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  • Flames from a propane stove engulf a small pot of chiles in oil as rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India. (Muna Kailash is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash and his wife Meera eat lunch in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (Muna Kailash is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman paddles a raft made of discarded lightweight refuse in the Banani Lake slum district. She gathers water in plastic jugs and bottles from a public spigot on the other side of the lake to bring back to her slum home on an island in the lake.
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  • Alamin Hasan with fellow very young child porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rickshaw drivers tout for customers outside the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Travelers crowd on top of a train at the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A man prepares food in a small restaurant in the old city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • A street vendor sells cigarettes at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman (at left), stands in a corral filled with cows in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar's mother D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds his youngest sister, Hawa, 2 inside the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Aboubakar family from Darfur province, Sudan, which lives in the camp, is one of the thirty families featured with a weeks' worth of food in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, Abdel Kerim, 16, Acha, 12, Youssouf, 8, Mariam, 5, and Hawa, 2. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man roasts a goat head in the Breidjing Refugee Camp located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border. The camp shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Aboubakar escaped over the border from the Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjaweed militia that were burning villages of black Sudanese tribes. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country; there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Marble Moahi, a 32 year-old mother living with HIV/AIDS, at her home in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Munna Kailash, a bicycle rickshaw driver, with his typical day's worth of food outside the small home that he and his wife Meera share with their children in Varanasi?in India's Uttar Pradesh province. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. When he comes home for lunch he normally drinks a cup of tea, takes a short nap, and then heads back out into the steamy heat to find other patrons to cart from one location to the next, a job he does seven days a week.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife, with family members in their house overlooking the Solimoes River, with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  She and her husband, Francisco (sitting behind her, at right), live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income?and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves?but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana?a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman, in his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River with his typical day's worth of food in  Manacapuru, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Boats docking on the Solimoes River in Mancapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • A girl brushes her teeth outside Ruma Akhter's home in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road.
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  • Alamin Hasan (left) confronts a rival at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan pushes a trolley at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee, with his day's worth of food in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 60 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. He escaped over the border from the volatile Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjawiid militia that were burning villages of ethnically black African Sudanese. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country, there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a rancher of Pima heritage, having a meal with his wife and sons at their home in the Sierra Mountains, near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Soumana Natomo and the rest of his family watch as Mamadou, 3, is given his bath. Because Fatoumata Toure, the household's second wife is still nursing a baby, Pama Kondo, the first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • Not everyone has a place to live in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Mustapha family in their courtyard in Dar es Salaam village, Chad, with a week's worth of food. Gathered around Mustapha Abdallah Ishakh, 46 (turban), and Khadidja Baradine, 42 (orange scarf), are Abdel Kerim, 14, Amna, 12 (standing), Nafissa, 6, and Halima, 18 months. Lying on a rug are (left to right) Fatna, 3, granddaughter Amna Ishakh (standing in for Abdallah, 9, who is herding), and Rawda, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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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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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Los Angeles, California - Mural in East Los Angeles.
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  • The Ayme family sits on the dirt floor of their kitchen and eats soup and empanadas for breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Municipal market at Galewela, Sri Lanka.
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo with his family at his home on their ranch in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The family of Pima rancher José Angel Galaviz enjoys breakfast at his home in the Sierra Mountains  near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Himba boy finishes cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Used shoes for sale along railway tracks in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai helps a calf reunite with its mother before the morning milking in a Maasai village comopund near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, rinses spoons in a cooking pot as her herder waits for his breakfast of cornmeal porridge, "ugali", and sweet hot tea before setting off for the day to graze the family's cattle on the southern Kenyan plain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Ermelinda's children enjoy soup and empanadas for breakfast in an earthen hut in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family of eight consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out.
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  • Smoke from cookfires wafts up into the sky at dawn in Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sunrise ushers in another day of waiting. It's November, two months after the rainy season, but  temperatures are still low. Women sweep the dirt in front of their tents while children walk to the water depot with empty plastic containers as roosters crow and donkeys bray into the desert air, which is beginning to lose its nighttime chill.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva's floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Ruma Akhter (center) walks under washing lines in the slum settlement near her home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan (right) confronts a rival at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • A Tibetan nomad walks outside one of the handmade yak wool tents that serves as a home to nomads during spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish and solar panel were provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Ruma Akhter (far right with folded arms in blue sari) lives with her family of six in a rented 10-foot-by-10-foot square room in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where they share a communal kitchen and latrines with 8 other families. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan carries a bag at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Viahondjera Musutua speaks to a neighbor outside her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A customer orders tilapia from Roseline Amondi's market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Roseline buys fish wholesale then fries them up on the street in front of her makeshift home and sells the lot of them before nightfall. She is the recipient of a small micro-loan which has given her the ability to open a small cafe, but the biggest boost to her life has been the women who have become her loan partners. The micro-lending operates as a club. If one person defaults, then everyone is responsible. The group is tight-knit, and gets together to talk about work, but also to play sports and support each other emotionally.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tilapia ready for sale on a market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, prepares tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.   (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right) a mother of four and microloan recipient speaks to  a friend outside her small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A girl buys a fried pastry from a vendor in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.  Providing affordable housing remains one of the key challenges of the Kenyan government.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.
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