Fatuma Salim, 56, recalls with nostalgia how cashew nut farming was a booming business in Kwale when she was a young girl. Not any more. The effects of climate change and exploitation from processors have turned the once white gold of the Coast into a source of misery.
Whereas key stakeholders have attributed the collapse of the once vibrant industry to the liberalisation of the agriculture sector following the introduction of the structural adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in early 1980s, the vagaries of weather have negatively impacted the crop too.
