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007 Of Milk and Money / Part One: the CEO and the Subsistence Farmer

Episode October 3, 2016

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Part One of a multi-part series examining the ways small Kenyan farmers are teaming up with multinational agribusinesses to confront climate change by reshaping the countryside. In today’s episode, we meet Prisca Mayende, who ratcheted up yields on her four-acre farm by planting trees. We also visit the Kaptama farmers’ cooperative — a key conduit in the link between subsistence farmers and local grocery stores.