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tanzanian clouds. Photo Caro Irby (thanks Caz)

Alex Renton

Cartoon Michael Ramirez

Picture Caroline Irby

Alex Renton is an award-winning journalist specialising in poverty and development and in food culture and food policy around the world.

He is based in Edinburgh, UK.

· more recent work

·  in The Guardian and The Observer

JUNE 2010: nominated for Amnesty award and won a food writing award

Tourism is a curse to us (Observer magazine, Sept ‘09), about the destruction of Masai livelihoods was runner-up for one of  Amnesty International’s journalism awards