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  • Clockwise from left: Maka Ali, 80. Her granddaughter Maria, 10. Maka's hands hold sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Maka Ali has been a widow for twenty years. She has eight children and about twenty grandchildren. She has experienced the loss of six children, four of them at an early age. "I was alone taking care of them, so I cannot say their deaths weren't related to lack of food," Maka recalls..Nobody in her family can work, so she receives a cash transfer from CARE. "When I receive the payment, I buy sorghum and maize," Maka explains. "Before this support, I couldn't; I was eating leaves."
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  • Clockwise from left: Sahara Mahama, 40. Her daughter Mariama, 4. A bucket of millet at Sahara's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Sahara Mahama has seven sons and a daughter. She lost four other children; one of them was only 14 days old. "I lost the youngest one during the rains, in the lean season. I didn't have enough to eat." .Eating has become increasingly harder through the years, recalls Sahara. "When I was a kid, we used to have three meals: in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.? However, one meal a day has now become the norm. "It's never guaranteed, but we try." .Sahara participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. With the money she receives, she buys cereal and gives her children two meals per day.
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  • Clockwise from left: Sakina Moudi (left), 30, and Halima Abdou, 25. Their children Kassoumou (right), 4, and Massaoudou, 10 months. Sakina takes sorghum out of a sack at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Halima Abdou has five children. Sakina Moudi has six children and suffered the loss of one..Last year they harvested 40kg of cereal. "It only lasted for five days," says Sakina. This year they didn't get any crops. .In the periods without food, their husband collects and sells wood to buy yam flour. Now their husband participates in CARE's cash-for-work project and continues to sell firewood to get additional income. "With this support, we get to eat abundantly," explains Halima. "We buy millet, sorghum, and corn." They serve their children two meals per day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
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  • Clockwise from left: Mariama Oumarou, 55. Her granddaughter Rakia, 4. A hand holds grains of corn in Mariama's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Mariama Oumarou has ten children and three grandchildren. Through the years she has lost four children and two grandchildren. She participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. "Not only can we buy millet and sorghum now, but also corn and condiments."
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  • Clockwise from left: Delou Ibrahim, 70. Her granddaughter Latifa, 8. Delou's hands hold sorrel leaves, used as a condiment, and grains of sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)<br />
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Delou Ibrahim has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Latifa, 8, poses for a photograph at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger.<br />
Her grandmother Delou Ibrahim, 70, has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Delou Ibrahim, 70, poses for a photograph at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. <br />
Delou Ibrahim has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Two young men unload poles from a truck at the grass market, in the town of Abyei.
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  • Women carrying grass on their heads walk across the grass market, in the town of Abyei.
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  • Save the Children staff members distribute construction materials to people who lost their homes in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan).
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  • Construction workers pour concrete for the base foundation of a home supported by Save the Children in Kizil Kishtak (Osh, Kyrgyzstan) with Sulaiman Mountain on the background.
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  • Families and construction workers watch a track dump sand next to their compound, where they are building a new home, in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan).
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  • A girl carries a bucket on her head in the town of Abyei.
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  • Activity at a bike repair shop in the market of Abyei.
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  • A woman loads hay onto a donkey, at the grass market in Abyei.
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  • Blacksmithing workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • Grain for sale is on display at a store in the market of Abyei.
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  • Grain for sale is on display at a store in the market of Abyei.
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  • Blacksmithing workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), owns a hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • A worker sews clothes at a tailoring workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), examines a light bulb at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Víctor Morel (left) lays bricks for a new construction. In Ocho de Mayo, precarious houses with brick walls stand next to shacks of wood planks and asbestos.
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  • A trader counts money at a market stall selling grain in the town of Abyei.
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  • A trader sells meat in the market of Abyei.
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), sells a light bulb to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Store selling fruits and vegetables in the market of Abyei.
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  • Blacksmithing workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • Blacksmithing workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • A worker sews clothes at a tailoring workshop in the market of Abyei.
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  • A man sits in the shade, leaning against the materials he is displaying for sale, at the grass market, in Abyei.
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  • Setep, 60, poses for a photograph during a break from work in her rice paddy in Paok Gading subvillage, Gumantar, Kayangan subdistrict, North Lombok district, West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Floods and other disasters in this region often affect rice crops.
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  • A participant speaks during the session about the Financial Sector Engagement strategic initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. In this working session participants discussed the goals and the work plan of the Financial Sector Engagement initiative. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Abdul Quddus Ali, 36 (left), Secretary of Sembalun Lawang's emergency preparedness team, poses for a photograph holding a 'Thank you' sign. He is standing on the embankment on the Sempronan river in Sembalun Lawang, Sembalun district, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province. This river was widened and deepened to prevent recurrent flooding. The village's emergency preparedness team collected data about land ownership on the banks of the river and proposed the project to the village government. Then the district government executed the work.
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  • Employees at the Martha Tilaar factory in East Jakarta, Indonesia, walk down stairs and prepare to leave after the factory's bell system rings at the end of the work day on July 2, 2015.
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  • Employees work at the research and testing lab of the Martha Tilaar factory in East Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015.
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  • Eztu Glass founder and CEO Brian Yaputra (left) inspect the work of employees at his company's factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015.
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  • Environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev takes part in the discussion about the China/India Demand Markets initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. In this working session participants reviewed the scope, objectives, partners and milestones of this strategic initiative. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Isabella Freire Vitali, Brazil Manager and Latin America Coordinator at Proforest, presents during a session on the Brazil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Susana Giménez, 34, has two kids from a former marriage and is expecting a third one from her partner, Carlos Tolosa. She works from home, assembling paper bags.<br />
In Ocho de Mayo, 80 percent of the residents earn a small income as 'cartoneros', collecting cardboard and plastics in the street, or doing odd jobs.
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  • Carlos Tolosa, a resident of Ocho de Mayo, worked in a metallurgic factory until 1989, when the company laid off some of its workers. "We are promised many things but never get anything, only the rich do."<br />
Informal settlements started to appear in the 1980s, coinciding with the end of full employment and the failure of the import substitution and industrialization model adopted by the Argentinean government
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  • Fraser Thompson, Director of AlphaBeta Advisors, presents the report "Better growth with forests: Economic analysis" during a session about the Better Growth strategic initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. In this working session participants discussed the implications of the report and the short- and long-term roadmap of the Better Growth initiative. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Saah A. David, Jr (right), National REDD+ Project Coordinator at Liberia's Forestry Development Authority (FDA), presents during a session on the Africa Palm Oil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Mauricio Voivodic, Executive Director of Imaflora, responds to comments during a session on the Brazil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Bruce Blakeman (right), Vice-President of Corporate Affairs in Asia-Pacific at Cargill, participates in the discussion during a session on the Indonesia Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Parhanah, 39, a member of Belanting's emergency preparedness team specialized in logistics, poses for a photograph holding a 'Thank you' sign. Oxfam and its local partner Konsepsi are working with women to strengthen their capacity and improve their leadership skills. Belanting is located in Sambelia district, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Marco Albani (foregroun), Director of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 at the World Economic Forum, moderates a breakout session on the Indonesia Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Chris Dragisic (center), Foreign Affairs Officer and REDD+ Focal Point at the U.S. Department of State, asks a question during a session on the Africa Palm Oil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Samiyah, 45 (right), is a landless farmer who works for others as a daily laborer; she is not a member of the female farmers organization led by Suparjiyem. Sitting by the front door of her house, she shows the daily meal she will share with her son Reno, 12 (right): a plate of rice and a plate of noodles. In the image (left) is also her mother Wati, around 80 years of age. They live in the village of Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Fraser Thompson, Director of AlphaBeta Advisors, presents the report "Better growth with forests: Economic analysis" during a session about the Better Growth strategic initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. In this working session participants discussed the implications of the report and the short- and long-term roadmap of the Better Growth initiative. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Isabella Freire Vitali (foreground, right), Brazil Manager and Latin America Coordinator at Proforest, answers a question during a session on the Brazil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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