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Race against global poverty

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There are so many ways to reduce poverty and its devastating effects on the developing world. Here are just a few ways you can help

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  • Driving six and a half miles to buy your shopping emits more carbon than flying a pack of Kenyan green beans to the UK.
  • British shoppers spend over £1 million a day on imported fruit and vegetables from Africa and the livelihoods of more than a million farmers and their families depend on this trade.
  • Air-freighting fruit and vegetables from Africa accounts for less than one-tenth of 1% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Emissions produced by growing flowers in Kenya and flying them to the UK can be less than a fifth of those grown in heated and lighted greenhouses in Holland.
  • The organic fruit, vegetable and flower export trade to Europe is worth an approximate US$100 million annually in exports from developing countries.