| The water is only one kilometre from our shamba. |
| On the other hand, the creation of settled communities has created problems of transport as the distance between village and shamba has increased. |
| In the mid-sixties, increased agricultural production from smallholdings, created by splitting larger farms, reduced vegetable prices and had an adverse effect on the income from the shamba system. |
| He teaches the boys how to manufacture marketable items from banana leaves of the shamba. |
| He has lived on his shamba, or smallholding, all his life. |
| Peasants hang them in shamba huts on stilts in their rice-fields, where they sleep during harvest season, so as to be at hand to scare off crop-munching hippos. |
