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Crossing Continents

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Kenya's Floral Revolution.
Flowers have become hot property in Kenya, especially on the shores of Lake Naivasha, where the fields and greenhouses full of roses destined for European supermarkets line the shores of the lake. Rosie Goldsmith hears about this flourishing economic success story that has brought much needed revenue to Kenya's ailing economy and jobs to local people. But environmentalists argue that the lake's fragile fresh-water ecology is under threat by water being drawn from the lake to irrigate the flowers and by pesticides seeping into the soil and water. Repeated from Thursday

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