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  • Fresh tropical fruit drink stand in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Fresh tropical fruit drink stand in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Breakfast at the Apsara Guest House in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Zumbagua has a vegetable market big enough to attract a few tourists. The town even has a small hotel or two. Zumbagua is midway between the high Andes and the coastal lowlands; its market, supplied by both climatic zones, creates a kind of ecological collision, with purple mountain potatoes and bumpy red oca tubers vying for space with tropical pineapples and blocks of coarse brown sugar. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 112).
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  • Every morning and evening the Lagavale family reads the Bible, prays and sings. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe lights his first cigarette of the day while his 11-month-old son naps in his lap and his wife sleeps. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, roasts nuts over a low fire in the cooking hut, in preparation for a White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe is spearfishing in a lagoon in Poutasi, Western Samoa, while a neighbor looks on. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • The Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, cheerfully pose for the camera in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which supplements their modest needs. Material World Project.
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  • Taro root, peeled and ready for cooking in the Lagavale family's kitchen house in Western Samoa. A young chicken is pecking around, looking for food scraps. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Taro root cooking on a fire in the kitchen house of the Lagavale family's home. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • An elderly family member of the Lagavales cannot walk well anymore and spends most of his day lounging on the hand woven mats on the floor of his house. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Fuao Lagavale, 13, washes her face at the water spigot outside the family's detached cooking house. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • His 10-year-old daughter walks by as Alatupe Alatupe cooks sausages in the family cooking shed behind the main house for part of the White Sunday feast. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • White rice and fried SPAM with green beans are part of the White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Somoa. The family sits on the floor on hand-woven mats. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Junior Alatupe Lagavale sleeps under a mosquito net in Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Alatupe Alatupe changes a flourescent tube in the family home in Western Samoa. The extended Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Breakfast at Mekong Estates house in town, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • Field of pineapples, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In a rare moment, when not surrounded by the in-laws and cousins with whom they share a Colonial-era house, the Costa family: Ramon Costa Allouis, Sandra Raymond Mundi, and their children Lisandra, and Fabio, in the courtyard of their extended family's home in Havana, Cuba with one week's worth of food. The Costa family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 96)
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  • On a languid afternoon, women sell bananas, squash, and other produce in a market in Apia, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Taitung, Taiwan. Buddha's head tropical fruit, a delicacy grown in Taitung.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Apsara guest house breakfast.
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