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KOTIDO — Catherine Namoe straightens up from the back-breaking task of harvesting cow pea leaves to answer some questions. It is tough work, she says, and the men do not help much.

Even if the rain does not come again to turn the plant’s yellow flowers into pea pods, the leaves can be dried and stored for a while and may help feed her family over the long, hungry season in Uganda’s north-eastern region of Karamoja.

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