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"Why 'feed' a car in Europe when hunger at home (Kenya) is still a reality?" 23.03.11

Please read BBC Environment news article: Kenyans fear Dakatcha Woodlands biofuel expansion

Sitting in the shade of a tree beside his thatched mud hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe is defiant.

"We are not going to let this land go even if it means shedding blood," he told the BBC.

"Land is very important to us. We farm and get our livelihood from it. On this land we bury our dead."

 

 

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