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Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border. The Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.

Feeding seven billion

21 Nov 2012
With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...
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Weighing in for the Cambridge Baby Growth Study

How does your baby grow?

31 Oct 2011
A study of infant growth, tracking 2,400 babies from gestation to the age of two, has provided data of unique depth – and is already adding to our...
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Chars dwellers building plinths as part of the cash-for-work scheme

Out of poverty

01 Nov 2010
Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.
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