Growing vegetables without soil on Gaza's rooftops

29 October 2012 Last updated at 10:19 ET Help

A UN-led project in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, has been creating vegetable gardens and fish farms on rooftops.

Traditionally dependant on agriculture and fisheries, nowadays the local population has limited access to land because of conflict and construction.

Roopa Suchak reports.

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