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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Climate resilient coffee varieties helping Kenyan farmers to protect UK brews

Harmful diseases and pests such as coffee berry disease have been hitting yields (Anthony Odamo/Fairtrade/PA) -

Kenyan farmers who supply coffee to UK brands and supermarkets have been switching to new varieties to help protect yields from devastating climate impacts.

Producers in the East African nation say increasingly volatile rain patterns as well as a host of diseases and pests, spurred on by human-driven climate change, are hitting production.

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