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In June 2009, I was sitting in Fond Verretes, a beautiful area in Haiti near the Dominican border. I was cooking a humble dish of old bread and canned sardines, with the help of a solar kitchen. Around me, watching me work with this solar cooker, were some locals and members of CESAL – a Spanish nongovernmental organization, with a few projects in Haiti and around the world. In a nearby area, children were playing with a ball made out of plastic bags that they had collected over time. I was struck by the expression of happiness on their faces. Looking at them, you would not imagine that their country just suffered a devastating loss of life, changing completely the way their nation would run itself over the next several decades.
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Andrés, J. (2013). Food: The Ultimate Answer. In: Madhavan, G., Oakley, B., Green, D., Koon, D., Low, P. (eds) Practicing Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4349-0_2
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