Kenya: Long-Suffering Sugarcane Farmers Have Some Hope in Alternative Crops

28 August 2015
opinion

Are there options to the sugarcane plantation economy in western Kenya? Or is the idea of weaning farmers from sugarcane as simplistic as someone argued recently?

In thinking about these questions, I am struck that we are dealing with an absolute resignation to the totalising assumption that there is no alternative to sugarcane farming in western Kenya.

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