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Wild life

Farming is a hard life no matter where you do it

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

Laikipia, Kenya

Erupe is a Kenyan farmer. He owns a smallholding of a few acres not far from my own place. When we meet our talk is usually about the vagaries that preoccupy farmers: crops, rain, livestock diseases and market prices. On his little patch he built a dwelling from mud and wattle with a corrugated iron roof.

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