Shoots, Greens and Leaves; Green Growth  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8789 (Jun. 2012), page 58-60.
Topik: Environmental Management; Flowers & Plants; Agriculture; Economic Conditions; Economic Development

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On the southern shore of Lake Naivasha, Kenya's lush Rift Valley holds an unexpected scent of English summer. For inside vast plastic greenhouses grow mile upon mile of roses. Exported to Europe, they account for a fifth of the commercial roses sold there and provide a tenth of Kenya's foreign exchange. But the business is a victim of its own success. Attracted by a scent more pungent than flowers, a quarter of a million Kenyans followed the rose growers into the valley, hoping to make money. To feed themselves, they ploughed the surrounding hills, felling the trees that filter and constrain the streams that flow into the lake; it is now polluted by silt and run-off. That might seem a classic story of development choked by the environmental damage it causes. But this one has a twist. The rose growers have started lending money to the smallholders, encouraging modern farming methods which leave the trees in place. Though it is early days, the results are promising; they benefit growers, small farmers and the lake. Paying for environmental services is not a new idea.

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