Agriculture, Food and Beverage

Loans are helping Kenyan women turn idle land into stable businesses

Feb 8, 2019

A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi, November 5, 2014. Emerald-coloured tea bushes blanketing the rolling hills of Nandi County have long provided a livelihood for small-scale farmers, helping make Kenya one of the world's biggest tea exporters. But ideal weather and bigger harvests, instead of producing bumper earnings, have led to a glut of Kenya's speciality black tea. Picture taken November 5, 2014. To match story KENYA-TEA/ REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT COMMODITIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EABG18SP01

Most women are locked out of the chance to start a business without land deeds. Image: REUTERS/Noor Khamis

Kagondu Njagi

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Fatuma Wario and a colleague work at her kitchen garden in Tuluroba village, eastern Kenya, December 6, 2018.

Fatuma Wario and a colleague work at her kitchen garden in Tuluroba village, eastern Kenya, December 6, 2018. Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi

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