Life below the poverty line: lessons from eating on $2 a day

Authors

Karen Charlton, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

91673

Publication Details

Charlton, K. (2014). Life below the poverty line: lessons from eating on $2 a day. The Conversation, 29 May 1-3.

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The Conversation

Abstract

Global poverty statistics are staggering - 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty and about 870 million are undernourished - but even in an affluent country such as Australia, many people struggle to eat well. Earlier this month, over 10,000 Australians, including myself, took up a charity challenge to live on $2 a day. The idea was to experience how impoverished people across the world live.