The population explosion in Kenya means that shamba land is bursting at the seams. All the productive land that is not already growing cash crop has been taken for shambas, which get divided and subdivided among the growing families. When suitable land runs out, the farmers get squeezed out - down to the arid bush country or up to the hill slopes.Hill slopes are cleared of forest to make way for crops, but tjis is only accelerates the crisis. Kenya has already lost half its natural woodland since independence in 1953. There is a desperate scramble for cleared land and for firewood. Almost all K use wood or wood charcoal , as a cooking and heating fuel. Everywhere you go, women carry huge bunches of firewood strapped to their backs.
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