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Kitchen gardens in Pakistan provide answer to high food prices

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20/04/2011

World food prices are continuing to climb year on year driving more people into poverty that's according to figures released by the World Bank. In Pakistan, the high prices have come at a particularly difficult time, following catastrophic flooding last summer which caused enormous damage to major food producing areas. But now villagers in the hardest hit regions are getting the support to grow the crops they badly need. Daniel Dickinson reports.

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