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Kenya harvest example on reversing food shortage

AHERO, Kenya (AP) — Joram Abiero remembers it was not too long ago that his neighbors went to bed hungry.

Now they and thousands of others in the lowlands of western Kenya are able to get year-round work as farm laborers or earn money from their once-neglected rice paddies. The government's investment in a rundown irrigation project has revived a rural economy that was in the dumps for years.

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