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‘Even when the harvest came, it wasn’t very good. The quality was poor and there wasn’t enough. I was struggling. I was just surviving.’ Sekoura from Mali
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‘We can’t eat [African Palm]. We are not motorbikes or cars that can be fed with petrol.’ Carmen from Colombia
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‘Believe me you find whatever food you have to give that child. To have a malnourished child, that’s worst kind of poverty there is.’ Cresencia from Guatemala
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‘If I come to the farm and do all the things that I'm doing, I become hungry. My stomach is crying and I feel weak in my body.’ Sulemana from Ghana
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‘[During the 2011 drought] some of the children became thin. For some of them, their stomach was pushed out and their skin was peeling off. They were weak.’ Bedlu from Ethiopia
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‘It is like mental torture because I’m always worried. When I wake up in the morning what comes to mind first is ‘How can I get food for myself and my family?’ Adama from Sierra Leone
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‘Hunger will be a problem for us [if the lack of rainfall continues]. We won’t be able to remain here if things don’t change. It isn’t easy to leave and I don’t know where we will go.’ Kadia from Mali
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‘When there is nothing, I give [my grandchildren] my share and I go to sleep. When I don’t eat it is as if I am falling sick. My joints hurt and I have to sit quietly.’ Fulera from Ghana
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‘I believe that while there is hunger there will not be peace.’ Eustaquio from Colombia
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‘When I’m hungry it feels like my stomach hurts. Sometimes I tie a t-shirt around my stomach and lie down and pray to God. It kind of gives you some strength, kind of numbs the pain.’ Wilkin, Haiti
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‘We eat just once a day. I feel like falling down, my head spins and I become very weak and can’t move much. I cannot think through anything. I feel very tormented and worried.’ Kadiatu from Sierra Leone
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‘By the grace of God I can eat one meal a day and one cup of porridge… It’s not enough food for the children. When you see the children are not satisfied, they do not follow well at school.’ Claudine, Rwanda
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‘Before the floods I used to cut and sell wood. It was very difficult work – I used to get very hungry and it used to take me all day. We ate just once a day, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.’ Zafar, Pakistan
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‘If one night we have something to eat, the next night we go hungry.’ Tajvar, Afghanistan