ActionAid schools | September 2012 | 1 World Food Day 2012: KS2 ActionAid schools | September 2012 Pupils at Langobaya school, Kenya, collect their school.

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World Food Day 2012: KS2

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Pupils at Langobaya school, Kenya, collect their school lunch as part of ActionAid’s school feeding programme.PHOTO: SØREN BJERREGAARD/ACTIONAID.

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Can you guess the name of this food?

Thikhala Chilembwe, 14 ,from Malawi. PHOTO: CAMERON MCNEE/MISSIONMALAWI//ACTIONAID

Margret David harvests a healthy crop from her garden in Malawi.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Why has this maize crop dried up? Can you think of three reasons?

The Yaa family's failed maize crop in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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Mariam Yaa, 10, collects water and tends the family’s goats in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

Mariam Yaa, 10, at her homestead in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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What type of food do you think is in the two bowls?

Karisa, Mariam and Karembo Yaa at home in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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Mariam’s family Mukta’s family

Why do you think some people go hungry?

Complete the first column

only!

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Mukta and her friends in their home village in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh.TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID

Mukta’s mother Shofikun in the community paddy fields in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

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What farming jobs do you think Mukta is doing?

Mukta and her mother Shofikun. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

Mukta in the family's vegetable garden.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

Mukta and her mother Shofikun.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

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Mariam’s family Mukta’s family

Why do you think some people go hungry?

Complete the

second column only!

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Reuben plays with his village friends. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

Reuben Chidimba with a baby goat at home in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Describe what you see in this picture. Do you think it would be easy or difficult to grow food in this area?

Typical landscape in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0

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Thabu Chidimba, a smallholder farmer in the fields she shares with other local women.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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What links all these pictures together? Lina Gondwe helping sprouting maize plants to grow.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

Compost heaps made by women farmers in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

Contrast between maize grown on compost-fed soil in the background and maize grown without compost in the foreground, Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Thabu and other women farmers on their irrigated land in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Think about Mariam, Mukta and Reuben. What are the similarities and difference between their lives

and the places where they live?