The highlighted countries will receive funding from Feed the Future, a new U.S. government initiative that aims to reduce hunger and poverty in the developing world by investing in the agricultural productivity of poor farmers.

Thanks to Tommy Fofana, Faustine Wabwire, Jessica Murray, Pramila Karki Murray, Santosh Subeidi Gillis Murray, John Hanson, Ivone Guillen, Ted Archer, Pamela Witcher, and Brian Gleeson.

Music by Richard M S Irwin.

created by Laura Elizabeth Pohl and James Frank