The Maasai women of Kenya are overcoming an environmental hazard caused by an invasive prickly pear which was introduced by colonial rulers in the early 1900s. Parts of the cactus called opuntia is edible, but its outer layers are very harmful to livestock which try to graze on it.
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Kenyan Maasai women turn harmful cactus species into bio-gas and food
