Thousands of Kenya’s Smallholder Coffee Farmers Risk Losing EU Market as Deforestation Law Takes Effect NYERI, Kenya, January 21 (IPS) - For the last twenty years, Sarah Nyaga, a smallholder farmer from Embu County in central Kenya, has farmed coffee. Like most across Kenya, she relies on the export market. A greater percentage of Kenya’s coffee ends up within the European Union market, but a new law threatens to disrupt what has been a source of income for thousands of farmers like Nyaga.

Thousands of #Kenya’s Smallholder #Coffee #Farmers Risk Losing EU Market as Deforestation Law Takes Effect

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A cross-sector group of European trade associations has called on the European Commission to simplify its controversial EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). #Coceral #CopaCogeca #EUDeforestationRegulation #FEFAC
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Ugandan civil society and ag stakeholders are raising alarms over coffee sector reforms and the country’s readiness for new EU deforestation rules — non-compliance could cost $1.14B a year. #UgandaCoffee #EUDeforestationRegulation #SustainableAgriculture
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Why does the beleaguered #EUDeforestationRegulation, the #EUDR matter? Because, if it had passed in its original form, it might have directly improved Maria's life in #Brazil: youtu.be/mrAMZFOFlDk