Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.

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North of Nairobi, for example, the lush, farm-laced hills gradually give way to the semiarid landscape of the Laikipia District, 2 million acres framed to the east by Mount Kenya, to the south by the Aberdare Mountains, and to the west by the fossil-rich Great Rift Valley.

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