Meet Western Kenya's Tree Tycoons

Armed with a solar-powered water pump for irrigation and a quarter-acre piece of borrowed land, widow Hakima Mohammed has become a Western Kenya tree tycoon, writes Isaiah Esipisu for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

A view of Hakima Mohammed's tree sapling nursery in Mwiyekhe, Kenya, January 9, 2018.

Farmer Morris Otieno walks through his grevillea woodlot in Muhanda, a village in western Kenya's Siaya County, January 9, 2018.

A view of trees being used as living fence posts on the Ebunyiri village farm of Western Kenya farmer Tom Joseph Olumasai Nyangweso, January 9 2018.

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