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A farmer harvests rice by hand in 2009 in Timor-Leste. More than 70 per cent of the world's hungry people are farmers, write Stephanie McDonald and Dana Stefov.UN photograph by Martine Perret

Opinion

BY DANA STEFOV, STEPHANIE MCDONALD

October 26, 2016

Trenia Arana had been farming seven acres of land in central Nicaragua. But after years of severe drought, crop failures and growing debt, she finally decided to take up a job as a housekeeper last year. With her husband working in neighbouring Costa Rica, Trenia’s 11-year-old son must now tend to...

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