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Rwnadan mother and child are boiling the potatos at the hot spring water on the lake Kivu, near Gisenyi. Rwanda's economy suffered heavily during the 1994 Genocide, with widespread loss of life, failure to maintain the infrastructure, looting and neglect of important cash crops. Rwanda is a country of few natural resources, and the economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture by local farmers using simple tools. Despite Rwanda's fertile ecosystem, food production often does not keep pace with population growth, and food imports are required.