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While bread is still baked in a beautiful, traditional way at Shamsullo Dustov’s house in Kumsangir, Tajikistan – just 50km from the Afghan border – it is necessitated by the very poverty that forces people to subsist on such a meager diet. Homemade bread in Tajikistan provides 50 percent or more of peoples’ average daily calorie intake. Around one out of every three people is undernourished.National Geographic: Baking Bread in Tajikistan from John Wendle on Vimeo.