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Encroachers in Mau forest are a happy lot over the return of shamba system

A cleared section at Kiptunga Forest in the Mau Forest complex on September 26, 2022. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

From a distance, it looks like heaps of trash beneath towering indigenous trees in Kiptunga forest, but up close, the tens of 'heaps' are makeshift homes that host hundreds of people practicing the Shamba System.

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