Kenya’s government has launched an ambitious overhaul of the tea sector, promising to raise farmers’ earnings to KSh100 per kilogramme of green leaf by 2027 and end years of unpredictable bonuses and regional inequalities. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe unveiled the reforms in parliament on 3 December while answering lawmakers’ questions about shrinking payouts. “These…
A high court in Machakos has declared unconstitutional parts of a 2012 seed law that criminalised the sharing of traditional seeds, removing the threat of prison and heavy fines for thousands of smallholder farmers. The ruling delivered on 27 November by Justice Rhoda Rutto strikes down sections of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act that…
Every year tens of thousands of tonnes of pesticides that European farmers are no longer allowed to use leave EU ports for Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2024 the European Union notified exports of 122,000 tonnes of substances banned at home, a 50% jump from 81,000 tonnes in 2018. Sharp rise in banned chemical…
