Tea pickers in Kenya’s highlands are absorbing the financial impact of climate change through reduced yields and daily wages, while export prices remain relatively stable in global markets.
A tea farmer on a farm in Murang’a County. [File, Standard]
At dawn, John, 60, and his wife Rose, 57, walk a short dirt track to their patch of farmland on a precipitously steep hillside in Kenya’s central highlands.
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