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VIDEO: Cuba's local growers
17 Dec 2008 03:13:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec 16 - In the wake of three devastating hurricanes, urban farming provides needed produce to supplement food shortages.

Urban farming took hold in Cuba back in 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Sarah Irwin reports.




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