In the last few decades, Muvea Kunyaa has seen the yield of his farmland increase and then go into decline, weighed down by the vagaries of climate change.
Today, the 72-year-old peasant farmer is happy, being part of a growing rural farming community in Kitui that has embraced malaa, the local name for sunflower, and advanced the production of the cash crop by manufacturing and marketing edible oil from the seeds.
