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Sharon Kiburi
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Data Journalist, Freelance
Nairobi
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Data feature stories in technology human interest climate change/environment finance and economics. Development
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By Sharon Kiburi, Mary Mwendwa| Talk Africa@ By Sharon KiburiClimate change has contributed to coffee cultivation’s descent from a profitable venture to a financial liability for most Kirinyaga County, Kenya, farmers. Kirinyaga County, Kenya: Sabina Wawira Ndega, 59, has lived in Kirinyaga County, south of Mount Kenya, her entire life. There, she has experienced the decline of the region’s once-thriving coffee industry. “In the late seventies and eighties, families with coffee bushes enjoyed a reputation for being well-off,” she says.
By Sharon Kiburi| The Star (Kenya) Verified In SummaryMost coffee in Kirinyaga is produced by smallholder farmers, who collectively sell their harvests through cooperatives. Kenya has been warming more quickly than the global average, according to a 2024 report, Climate change impacts in Kenya. Workers drycoffee beans inMutira Farmers’CooperativeSociety coffeefactory inKirinyaga countyon December 20last year/XINHUACoffee farmer Sabina Ndega, 59,has lived through the decline of theonce-thriving industry in Kirinyagacounty.
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Freelance
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