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Struggling Potato Growers Ink a New Deal in Kenya

To deal with climate pressures, farmers are turning to growing contracts to earn more money and get better seed, writes Kagondu Njagi for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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Farmers receive training on how to produce potatoes for processors at the Ol Jorok Agriculture Training Center in central Kenya, March 3, 2017.

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Customers stop to buy potatoes at Louise Wangari’s shed along the Nyandarua roadside in central Kenya, March 3, 2017.

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