Kenya: Get Paid for Planting Your Own Trees
By Kimani Chegea, , May 12, 2006
A group of farmers in Nanyuki have now joined the global carbon trade. They are being urged to plant trees, not for firewood , timber or electricity poles, but for absorbing excess carbon from the environment - And they are being paid for it.
Through this new concept, 45 members of Rongai Development Programme have each received Sh700 as motivation to join the trade by establishing carbon sinks (forests and tree planting projects).
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