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“East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector”

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East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector

An important source of foreign currency, coffee exports are the subject of a power struggle between multinational trading companies and the region's coffee-producing countries, chief among which are Ethiopia and Kenya. While governments try to impose reforms designed to favour local producers and intermediaries, international traders, notably German and Swiss, seek to maintain their dominant position. Fuelling the stand-off are new European Union directives on traceability and the social and environmental impact of agricultural products, which will have major repercussions across the entire sector. [...]

The team put in place by the previous administration to reform the coffee sector has managed to survive the post-election transition, thanks in large part to the intervention of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. [...]

Published on 30.11.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Anne Waiguru
Coffee Sub-Sector Implementation Committee
Council of Governors
Joseph Kieyah
Kenya Coffee Traders Association
Kenyan Capital Markets Authority
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Peter Njeru Ndwiga
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Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.

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Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at his swearing-in ceremony in Nairobi last September.

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Employees process coffee at the Central Kenya Coffee Mill near Nyeri, Kenya.

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Kenyan presidential candidates William Ruto and Raila Odinga.

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Anne Waiguru
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Joseph Kieyah
Kenya Coffee Traders Association
Kenyan Capital Markets Authority
Nairobi Coffee Exchange
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Kenya
Ruto retains Kenyatta's coffee task force

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Gachagua quietly hands coffee reform reins to controversial Kenyatta-era economist

Kenya
Gachagua's coffee sector reforms challenge dominance of foreign traders

Kenya
Gachagua seeks to revive glory days of Kenya's coffee sector

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Deputy President Gachagua aims to reign over Mount Kenya

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Ruto consolidates his bastions and chips away at Odinga's with his new government

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