Thousands of Kenya’s Smallholder Coffee Farmers Risk Losing EU Market as Deforestation Law Takes Effect By Jackson Okata Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/01/thousands-of-kenyas-smallholder-coffee-farmers-risk-losing-eu-market-as-deforestation-law-takes-effect/ NYERI, Kenya, Jan 21 2026 (IPS) - For the last twenty years, Sarah Nyaga, a smallholder farmer from Embu County in central Kenya, has farmed coffee. Like most across Kenya, she relies on the export market. A greater percentage of Kenya’s coffee ends up within the European Union market, but a new law threatens to disrupt what has been a source of income for thousands of farmers like Nyaga. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.