From shamba to PELIS: Kenyan farmers derive livelihoods from government timber plantations
via news.mongabay.com
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KAKAMEGA, Kenya — A Monday morning finds 50 members of the Nzoia Community Forest Association trekking through rain-drenched thickets in the 5,300 hectare (13,000 acre ) Nzoia Forest Plantation. They are returning to an area designated as Compartment One, the 42 hectares (103 acres) deep inside the plantation. Two weeks ago, they planted maize here. […]