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Kenya1977 onward
Founded by Wangari Maathai, the movement paid rural women to plant trees, tackling deforestation, firewood shortages and poverty together, and grew into a wider fight for democracy in Kenya. Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
Wangari Maathai and the women's groups who planted tens of millions of trees.
Environmental restoration led by women; land rights; democratic government.