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    "id": 1232868,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1232868/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "On the rationale behind the ban on maize cultivation, first I want to say that the PELIS is a practice that is undertaken as non-resident cultivation. It is provided for in law under the Forest Conservation and Management Act. This is a practice that only happens within commercial plantation areas, and not indigenous forests. Sections 48, 49 and 50 of the Forest Conservation and Management Act No.34 of 2016 speak to the issue of community participation in forest conservation and management. This, read together with the Sustainable Management Rules of 2009, afford communities adjacent to forests the opportunity to practise non-residential cultivation. This means that communities adjacent to forests that do not own the land can cultivate it for a maximum period of three years. This is in the spirit of involving forest adjacent communities in the management of forests for purposes of sustainable management because we cannot do that effectively without involving the forest adjacent communities. The law states that the Kenya Forest Service may enter into a written agreement with a community forest association to allow its members to engage in the non-residential cultivation. As I said, this only happens in commercial plantations. The law further provides that the Kenya Forest Service may not allocate a plot within an important water catchment area, or a source of spring or on a slope exceeding 30 per cent inclination or within 30 metres on either side of a river course. The law is very clear on when the non-residential cultivation is allowed within our plantation forests."
}