“For nonprofit The Nature Conservancy. A Kenyan woman stands in her field of young bamboo trees. In 2018, the Kenyan government clamped down on a law to ban the production and use of charcoal due to its extremely damaging impact on Kenya’s forests. The ban, however, has encouraged a group of women who live two hours outside Nairobi to find an alternative fuel source. The women have turned to growing their own bamboo plantations. As bamboo grows quickly, has very little environmental degradation and can be converted into a charcoal alternative.”
