For over 12 years, Rein Skullerud has photographed hunger and the World Food Programme's work to end it. During a recent trip to document the devastation of the drought in Niger, the Sahel region, he was struck by the conditions of the land.

In the video below, he tells the stories behind the pictures he took there:

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