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

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.