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/ 22 November 2002

Hunger in a land of surpluses

When the crops failed and there was no work, the villagers of Mundiar began searching for food in the jungle. They didn’t find any. Instead, they found grass. And so for most of the summer, the village’s 60 households got by eating sama — a fodder normally given to cattle.

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