One of the people trying to do that is Mary Nyale, programme coordinator for Farm Africa’s Growing Futures project in western Kenya.

"We call coffee the black gold around here," Mr Macharia, whose farm covers 2.5 hectares (six acres) , told the BBC. He grows the Kenya AA coffee ... droughts increase, good coffee will become ...

Kenya is sending 1,500 farm workers to Israel ... in place for many years with these countries and it has been a good experience," Mr Lotem said. He added that the labour shortage had been ...