The Missing Link in Kenya’s Agricultural Value Addition Agenda

In Kenya, coffee value addition begins with farmers, but the commercial benefits often remain beyond their reach because they know little about the products, markets and margins that determine coffee’s value. Berina, a lawyer from Kapenguria who grew up in a coffee-farming household, picked ripe berries every Saturday and delivered them to the factory. She understood the labor of harvesting but knew little about the coffee’s commercial journey afterward.