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    "id": 655844,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/655844/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "We have climate change and we need to address interventions towards this. Protection of our indigenous seeds, especially those that form the fabric of indigenous forests, will help us to mitigate challenges of climate change. It will save our rivers and continue to provide the much needed rainfall especially in tropical areas. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support particularly the introduction of an institution. During the Committee stage, I intend to bring amendments that will take the work of this institution beyond research to policy because we need to have policies. This is particularly important because indigenous plants are not the same everywhere. You will find, for example, that the use of cactus here is not the same use the Mexicans have for it. Whereas they use the cactus as vegetable, we do not use it for the same purpose. So, we need a legislation that will serve the different locations. For instance, Kakamega Forest, which I am very interested in, cannot be managed on the same basis as other forests which are just plantations. It is majorly an indigenous forest that needs an exclusive legislation that will incorporate protection of not just the forest but the plantations and wildlife in it as well as the birds and butterflies. We have very unique products there that enrich our ecosystem and we need to have specific legislation and regulations that protect that. With those few remarks, I wish to support. Thank you."
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