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Women sell vegetables as trucks are unloaded in the central market in Bujumbura, Burundi. The increase in fuel prices has led to a sharp increase in food prices globally and has made vegetables and staple foods very expensive in a country such as Burundi where nine out of 10 people live on less than $1 per day.
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Lucie Nahimana, a mother of four, breaks up moldy cassava to be milled into black flour at the local mill on Thursday. According to relief workers, black flour has little nutritional value, but more and more people are buying the flour because of the increase in food prices in countries such as Burundi. Black flour is the cheapest flour on the market, but it has still doubled in price since the start of the year.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
James Ndegwa, 46, a small-scale farmer and owner of two-and-a-half acres of land, pauses among his cucumber crop. Ndegwa says he farms the way his grandparents did and complains about the bureaucratic difficulties in getting farm loans from the Kenyan government.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
Muthiani Ndolo carries buckets of water from a stream to water his tomato crop. Less than 4 percent of farm land in Africa is irrigated.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
Muthiani Ndolo picks kale.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
Mary Nyambura and her husband Joseph Muhia water their crops with hoses attached to a small water pump in a nearby stream. Their two-and-a-half-acre plot is surrounded by large-scale coffee farms, whose security personnel patrol the vast estates by helicopter.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
Maize is sold in a large vegetable market, where farmers bring their produce for sale to local middlemen and vegetable distributors. Farmers complain about the rising cost of fuel, which has forced them to sell their crops at higher prices.
Evelyn Hockstein / MCT
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