One of poverty’s cruelest ironies is that in many countries across the world, the hungriest people are smallholder farmers. In this set of cartoons, find out how the hunger season – the period when a farming family’s crop stockpiles start to run out – affect a family’s ability to survive.
Learn more about poverty’s cruel irony, by reading Roger Thurow’s book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change.
