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The biodigester trick: Treasure cow dung to fight deforestration

Cecilia Njambi at her farm in Lashau area of Ndaragwa Sub-county, Nyandarua. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

Cecilia Njambi cannot tell the number of trees she felled to provide charcoal and firewood for her daily cooking. “They were many,” she confesses, reminding this writer that this had happened since the early 1970s, when she was married in Leshau, Nyandarua County.

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