True Price of Quality

In Kenya, tea is a “political crop” (Ochieng 2007). Tea one of Kenya’s largest exports and an important foreign exchange earner source revenue. At the same time, key to livelihoods many smallholder farmers in central Kenya west Rift Valley, so that price recurrent focus political campaigns. Keenly aware tea’s economic value, county governments grapple with national government over policy, while industry actors challenge resist attempts at reform. These politics around “true” are situated regenerated through infrastructures which Kenyan produced, processed marketed.