Food photographer Yuki Sugiura focuses on a different food story: chronic hunger in the Sahel

Across the Sahel region of Africa there is a silent hunger crisis. Over seven million people don’t know where their next meal will come from and 1.5 million children are acutely malnourished. The British Red Cross, with the support of players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, is helping to break the cycle of hunger in the Sahel.

To mark World Food Day, the British Red Cross partnered with the food photographer Yuki Sugiura. She usually shoots with top chefs on the London food scene such as Yotam Ottolenghi and Thomasina Miers (co-founder of Wahaca). But this year, Yuki turned her lens on a a crisis that is rarely talked about – chronic hunger in the Sahel, a region of Africa that borders the Sahara. Across the Sahel, 7 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from and 1.5 million children are acutely malnourished.

This is already one of the already of the driest regions on earth, and temperatures could rise by several degrees by the end of the century. Climate change, environmental degradation, extreme poverty, conflict and growing populations mean that millions are overwhelmed. But the British Red Cross, with the support of players from the People’s Postcode Lottery, is helping to break the cycle of hunger in the Sahel.

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