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Photo from Save River bank Gardens,Gumira, Chipinge District, Zimbabwe
 
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Mrs. Stoli waters the cabbage in her river-bank garden. Riverside gardens are illegal—to prevent erosion you are not supposed to cultivate within 30 meters of the river. However, without a pump or another way to irrigate, this is the only place to garden during the dry season.

by Robert Joppa
Save River bank Gardens,Gumira, Chipinge District, Zimbabwe (1999)

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