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Kenya's yuMobile calls it a day
2014-03-03 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Struggling operator reportedly files plan to sell itself to Safaricom, Airtel.
Green loans help Kenya's small farmers and protect the environment
2014-02-17 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Borrowing money did not come naturally to James Gachacha Chira. The 56-year-old, who farms a smallholding in the shadow of Kenya's Aberdare mountains, has a conservative streak that many farmers would recognise. Tales of bankrupted smallholders who lost their land to bad loans are common here, as are woeful stories of farmers swindled by corrupt co-operatives. "I was afraid of borrowing money as I heard that farms are repossessed when you can't pay," the father of six admits. "So I never used...
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Kenya\'s sugar industry at risk
2014-02-13 07:04:49| Sugar Industry News
NOT SO SWEET: Kenya produces 550,000 tonnes of sugar a year, but the government has failed to reform the sector and instead imposes high tariff and nontariff protection. Picture: BLOOMBERG
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The tech modernising Kenya's matatus
2013-10-08 01:05:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How tech is modernising Nairobi's ramshackle buses
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Report: Climate change to shift Kenya's breadbaskets
2013-09-16 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Codex: Kenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of the country much less productive for cultivation while simultaneously making others more maize-friendly, according to a new report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). The report, released today by the CGIAR...
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