Kenya coffee: Farmers face the double whammy of poor pay and climate change

Growers find that the changing climate is having a big impact on the size of their harvests.

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Along with other farmers, Mr Macharia brings sacks of his bright red coffee cherries to the local processing plant, where they are weighed and treated.

A machine removes the red husks, and the pale beans inside are washed and passed along concrete channels, ending up on lines of drying platforms that sweep across the valley.

Here, workers categorise the beans into grades, the highest destined for the coffee houses of Europe.

"We call coffee the black gold around here," Mr Macharia, whose farm covers 2.5 hectares (six acres) , told the BBC.

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