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  • A young girl with her baby sister on her back in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • One of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors with her children in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.  (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Shahnaz, a mother of four, got her first micro loan several years ago, from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • Costumed revelers, a nun in drag and a clown, at Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anne Glad Fredricksen, 45, her husband Anders Ostensen, 48, and their three children, Magnus, 15, Mille 12, and Amund, 8 at an evening meal in their farmhouse kitchen. Model-Released.
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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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  • USA_SFOL_11_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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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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  • USA_SFOL_04_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Family in their living room, Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Sr. Muna and his family having drinks at a cafe, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Young girls in the Chairman District slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • The children of one of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors at their home in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.   (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Shahnaz got her first micro loan several years ago, from BRAC, Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She repaid her initial loan and has since gotten new ones over the years along with thousands of her fellow Bangladeshis. This mother of four was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her tenants share a companionable outdoor cooking space and all largely cook traditional Bangladeshi foods such as dahl, ruti (also spelled roti), and vegetable curries. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Twin fishmongers in the Mercado del Ninot, Barcelona, Spain.
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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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  • Abdul-Baset Razem and his family having a mid day meal in the Palestinian village Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, at a midday meal with his family in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Vendan women with their termite collecting equipment; sticks to penetrate into the termite mounds in order to retrieve the insects and bowls to collect them, Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • (1992) Maria Jose Lavalle Lemos, Haydee Lemos and Maria Lemos are a family that has been reunited by DNA fingerprinting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Maria Jose Lavalle-Lemos was born in captivity in 1977 taken by the nurse who helped deliver the baby.  Her father was killed in prison, and her mother was reportedly thrown from an airplane (from her stretcher) into the river Platte the day after the birth.  Her sister, Maria, was left on the street in a basket with her name five days after her parents were taken.  The sister was returned to the family. DNA Fingerprinting.  MODEL RELEASED
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  • IND.MWdrv04.118.x..Mishri Yadav's sister, Sona (foreground), has come from her nearby village of Bhagwarpur to help harvest wheat with a friend and her sister Mishri (in pink) in Mishri's home village of Ahraura, Uttar Pradesh, India. Women often share harvesting tasks to make the work go faster. Mishri's family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • A small coal-burning stove heats the neighboring ger of Oyunsetseg's sister and her family on a snowy September weekend morning. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Leah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy's house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Bachau and Mishri Yadav's oldest child, daughter Nishadevi, 19, called Guddi, and sisters Aarti and Seema pose for a portrait with their mother's sister, Soni, visiting from a nearby village, and another family friend. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.423.x..Seema Yadav, in pink, and her sister and brother?Aarti and Anurag (called Guddu) are dressed and ready for school in Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Child, Children, Education..
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  • IND.MWdrv04.132.x..MIshri Yadav, 35, (in pink sari) her sister (in red) who has come from a neighboring village to help, and a friend walk to Mishri's home after harvesting wheat. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Mishri's family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • The Lasceve family: brother tying his tie in the bathroom mirror as his sister watches. Paris, France.
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  • FIRST CONTACT: "FETALFONE" Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special Issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: The Smith's of Vallejo, California were not certain that the latest hi-tech form of giving their (unborn) child a headstart was effective, but it sure was fun to see Junior react to their voice on his "fetalfone". It was true that the youngster could only use it to listen (even if he could talk, it would very difficult in the amniotic fluid), but they enjoyed the idea that their offspring would be comfortable with a cell phone from Day Minus-90 to Day One when he popped out. The flat screen imaging unit affords the parents (and in this case older sister) the opportunity to track the unborn's development and also watch his reactions when they talk to him on the "Fetalfone". [Fetus with "Fetalfone" shown on "Babewatch", fetus-scan home imaging system can be monitored by absent parent via Internet.] MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Though tentative at first, brother and sister Taichi (3, at left) and Shino (5) warm up to the robot ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) and agree to stand close enough to get a good look at the small stature robot after a performance at Suzuka City, Japan. Honda's walking robot, called ASIMO, is child-sized and has more maneuverability than it's predecessor, the Honda P3. Pictured here at Suzuka City, Japan, amusement complex..
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  • Namgay and Nalim's family in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. (Some of their children, from left to right): Their grandson Chato Geltshin, and daughter Bangam (holding her younger sister Zekom). From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Especially fond of the children, Uncle Kinley Dorji (seated at right) has given up marriage to help with childcare in his sister Nalim's house. A typical task: feeding a weekend breakfast of sweet, thick rice soup to Tandin Geltshin, one of the two-year-olds. His namesake and nephew, Kinley (standing at left) observes the jumble of children from the lofty distance of his 17 years. A student at a boarding school an hour's walk away, he is home only for weekends. Namgay and Nalim's family lives in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages76-77.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Delphine Le Moine, a dance student at the Centre International de Danse Jazz Rick Odums, shares lunch at home with her sister Laetitia, a high school student, and her cat in the family dining room in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, France. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). John Brown holds his sister Sinead as they graze in the nearly-empty refrigerator. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 27).
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec blows birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. (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 October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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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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  • On a slow Saturday in Ban Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, the hottest action in the village is in the cool shade under the Khuenkaew's house. Three weeks ago, Boontham and Bourphet gave their son Visith, 9, a hand-held video game, and the household has been filled with its beeps and buzzes ever since. Here his best friend plays with the game as Visith's 14-year-old sister Jeeraporn, left, and her friends watch. Published in Material World page 82. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Visith Khuenkaew sits outside the family toilet room, waiting for his sister to come out so he can use the toilet. Chiang Mai, Thailand. He and his family live in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Sangay, her children, and young sister Zekom (second from right) eat a snack of toasted grain. Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Alma Casales cooks crab soup at her sister's restaurant in Cuernavaca, Mexico for both the patrons and her family. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 223).
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  • Coco Simone Finken (called Coco), 16, at her small birthday party celebration (dinner followed by birthday cake), with her family: her sister and parents, in their suburban straw bale home. They live a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Delphine Le Moine, a dance student at the Centre International de Danse Jazz Rick Odums, makes lunch at home with her sister Laetitia, a high school student, who holds their cat in the family kitchen in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, France. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • IND.MWdrv04.045.x..Mishri Yadav, 35, (in pink sari) her sister, Sona, who has come from the neighboring village of Bhagwarpur to help, and a friend walk to Mishri's home after harvesting wheat. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Her family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • Young Daniel Piña Real, 4, displays his lunch of live fried chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae ) the worms were pulled from the infected trunk of a pansona tree by Daniel's father and siblings, and were prepared by Marleni, his older sister. Koribeni, Peru. (page 161)
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  • The disfigured hand of a Dani woman. In Dani culture, the fingers of women are severed from the first knuckle at an early age as a tribute to family members who have died. Amuloke: "My older sister died and my mother cut them (my fingers) off when I was five years old with a sharp stone axe, all of them at once. Now I feel a bit angry with my mother because she cut them. When I see the other fingers complete, I feel bad about it. The cut fingers aren't good for holding. They don't work very well." Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82)
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  • Rural life 35km from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. An older brother holds his young sister. The live in a traditional ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt).  Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). To break the monotony of dogsled travel, 9-year-old Martin Madsen runs alongside. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. Martin's sister Belissa sleeps through part of the journey behind her father on his sled. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 148).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Preparing to host visitors in their home in Bhutan, Sangay pours a pot of tea into a thermos. Her half-sister Bangam holds the sieve. Meanwhile, Namgay, the family patriarch, waits patiently for a cup. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 276). The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily milk cows on their small tea plantation in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Kibet Serem's sister-in-law Emily dishes up pinto beans and rice as Kibet Serem's mother, Nancy, watches a Kipsigis music video. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Ahmed family of Cairo, Egypt, 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).Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 122).
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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily strain the milk from the family's five cows in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Kibet Serem's sister-in-law Emily dishes up pinto beans and rice as Kibet Serem's mother, Nancy, watches a Kipsigis music video. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Kibet Serem having a lunch of pinto beans and rice here with his mother and sister-in-law. He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 13).  The Brown 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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  • (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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  • The mother and sister-in-law of Kibet Serem chat while a pot of milk heats over a fire to make yogurt in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Kibet looks after a tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy and is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. Their staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Rice farmer's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Nguyen Van Theo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sangay cooks at the wood-burning hearth and earthen stove in the kitchen of the rammed earth home she and her husband and children share with Sangay's parents, and brothers and sisters. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • The Calabay Sicay family sisters at home in San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala. Smiles show tooth decay.
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  • The apartment building on Kotyelnicheskaya Nabyerezhnaya embankment in Moscow, Russia. One of Stalin's Seven Sisters.
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit her at her home in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet; What the World Eats. Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).  The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, 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 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. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Theo Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Julia Marumo, her two young sisters, and her cousin Gladys pick mopane worms from mopane trees in the countryside; entire families like hers move into mobile camps for the short mopane harvest which occurs twice every year in Botswana. The mopane worm is actually the caterpillar of the anomalous emperor moth (Imbrasia belina), one of the larger moths in the world. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, and its leaves which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. (pages 128,129)
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields in Tingo, Ecaudor, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit. The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Food is distributed free of charge by the United Nations WFP (World Food Program). Here 12 year old Acha Aboubakar prepares to take her family's (her mother is a widow and she has 4 brothers and sisters) ration of grain ground into meal at a portable diesel powered mill operated by a local entrepreneur who is paid with a small percentage of the grain. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • One of Stalin's "Seven Sisters" buildings in Moscow, Russia.
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