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  • Women in a rural village talking near a millet field as a thunderstorm approaches during the rainy season in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Dorowa, Niger. 18/07/2017.
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  • Maria, the mother of Fatchima who was treated at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic at the Aguie hospital in August 2016, working in the family's millet fields near their village in the Maradi province of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Dourgou, Niger. 16/07/2017.
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  • Women turning the soil of a millet field with traditional farming tools in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Dourgou, Niger. 16/07/2017.
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  • Women turning the soil of a millet field with traditional farming tools in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Dourgou, Niger. 16/07/2017.
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  • Women turning the soil of a millet field with traditional farming tools in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Dourgou, Niger. 16/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Women bring their sorgho, millet and corn to be milled into flour at the village mill. The village women's collective "Manegr?" worked to have the mill installed in the village..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 06/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A young man runs the mill where women grind their sorgho, millet and corn into flour. The village women's collective "Manegr?" worked to have the mill installed in the village..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 06/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Farmers collectively practicing  the "Zai" technique: an ancient Mossi technique  that had fallen out of use until it was revivied by the UNGVT (Union Namanegbzanga des Groupements villageois). It consist of digging circular holes with a pickaxe at regular distances to slow the evacuation of rain water from the fields and to direct the water toward the seeds to be germinated. In each cavity are placed cereal grains, white and red sorgho, millet and corn, the staple foodstuff of the region. Cereals are rotated with vegetables, beans and peanuts..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 08/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Farmers collectively practicing  the "Zai" technique: an ancient Mossi technique  that had fallen out of use until it was revivied by the UNGVT (Union Namanegbzanga des Groupements villageois). It consist of digging circular holes with a pickaxe at regular distances to slow the evacuation of rain water from the fields and to direct the water toward the seeds to be germinated. In each cavity are placed cereal grains, white and red sorgho, millet and corn, the staple foodstuff of the region. Cereals are rotated with vegetables, beans and peanuts..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 09/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • Mothers waiting in line to receive "bouillie" (a liquid made from millet based cereal) to feed to their malnurished and ill children at the Save The Children malnutrition clinic in the courtyard of the Aguie hospital in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Located in the Western Sahel, the landlocked country suffers from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity caused by climate related drought and erratic rainy seasons, inadequate arable land, one of the highest demographic growth rates in the world, poor social and sanitary living conditions and widespread poverty. Food insecurity affects children under five and women disproportionately, especially in rural areas. Aguie, Niger. 15/07/2017.
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  • A woman pounding millet in a village in Gorgol province.In order to produce enough food to sustain communities through the long dry seasons in the Western Sahel, agricultural activities depend on the cycles of seasonal rains. Global warming and climate change have caused rainy seasons to fail, erratic rains when they do come and prolonged drought in recent years, exacerbating food insecurity, hunger and poverty in the region.<br />
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  • Women whose families don't have the money to pay for their cereals to be ground into flour at the village mill, pound their sorgho, millet and corn into meal in the traditional way. The meal is essential for the preparation of T?, the basic rural diet..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 07/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Farmers collectively practicing  the "Zai" technique: an ancient Mossi technique  that had fallen out of use until it was revivied by the UNGVT (Union Namanegbzanga des Groupements villageois). It consist of digging circular holes with a pickaxe at regular distances to slow the evacuation of rain water from the fields and to direct the water toward the seeds to be germinated. In each cavity are placed cereal grains, white and red sorgho, millet and corn, the staple foodstuff of the region. Cereals are rotated with vegetables, beans and peanuts..Tanlili, Burkina Faso. 09/06/2004.Photo © J.B. Russell
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