{"id":6330,"date":"2019-11-04T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"the-shamba-system-an-indigenous-woman-fights-for-the-rights-of-her-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/04\/the-shamba-system-an-indigenous-woman-fights-for-the-rights-of-her-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shamba System: An Indigenous Woman Fights For The Rights Of Her Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By UN\nEnvironment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLocal communities have to be involved in\ndecisions about forests that affect their livelihoods,\u201d says Tecla Chumba, a\nKenyan woman from the Lembus tribe and mother of four. She set up a community\nforest association and asked the Kenya Forest Service to give each member half\nan acre of land and tree seedlings that they could plant, alongside their own\ncrops. Members would then return these plots after the trees have grown for\nthree years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is called the \u201cshamba system\u201d or \u201cplantations establishment for livelihood improvement scheme.\u201d It is a way to afforest land where exotic trees have been cut for timber. The community benefits from being able to plant crops such as potatoes, tomatoes, beans, peas, maize and even grass for cow fodder in exchange for planting tree seedlings and taking care of the growing trees for three years. This agroforestry approach has set the expectation for local farmers to use indigenous traditional methods to kill insects and no insecticides, but rather cow dung and ashes. In return, the Kenya Forest Service gets a piece of land that has been reforested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/shamba-system-indigenous-woman-fights-rights-her-community\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment \u201cLocal communities have to be involved in decisions about forests that affect their livelihoods,\u201d says Tecla Chumba, a Kenyan woman from the Lembus tribe and mother of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}