Top Producer's Jeanne Bernick gives you a first-hand look at live in Kenya.
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The main road through a Kenyan village.
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Rice market, sellers waiting for buyers to come a real commodity exchange!
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Women do the majority of field work in Kenya.
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Here's a hay barn used for storage by pastoral grazing farmer.
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Here's a look inside the Kiserian slaughterhouse in Kenya.
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Here's our bus of journalists from around the world touring Kenya agriculture.
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Life in a third world country.
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Dairy processing facility outside Nairobi, pays farms $30 per liter of milk.
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These are Masaai farmers waiting for their livestock to sell.
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Here's a roadside market and supermarket.
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Women are an important part of farming and bank loans.
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We visited coffee and tea farms along the equator.
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Tobacco production is growing in Kenya. Smoking bans around the world have not made a change in demand, due in part to a rising population of people 19 and older who want to smoke cigarettes. It is a well-grown cash crop in Kenya.
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A pastoralist farmer tends his goats.
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A Kenyan supermarket.
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The road to the pastoralist field school where they learn about grazing practices.
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The side of road in rural Kenya.
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A tire shop in rural Kenya.
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Jeanne in front of Rift Valley after livestock market tour
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Kenyan farmer Arthur and is dairy, feeds boda grass and Bahia grass mix.
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Dairy barn for smallholder farmer, one cow produces 20 kg of milk.
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Kenyan Extension agent Paul Mambo at smallholder dairy farm.
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Lunch at a dairy farm cooperative.
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This is a coffee drying and processing facility in Northeast Kenya, near Mount Kenya.
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President Obama is favored here and pictured all over Kenya.
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This is a reception a the Dutch embassy in Kenya. The Dutch are major supporters of Kenyan ag programs.
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A supermarket in the Kenyan town of Meru is very modern.
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Tea is one of the top cash crops in Kenya and it's largest export crop. Here, women are picking tea leaves. Women do most of the labor in the fields in Kenya. But the recent new Kenyan constitution passed in 2010 requires more women on the member boards of co-ops and provides for protection of land rights for women.
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Milk collection happens every day beside the side of the road.
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Vegetable farmer Esther Waithira Chege says farmers are understanding that growing crops can be a business once they eliminate the middle man and set a plan with the supermarkets to schedule plantings around food demand.
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In tobacco farming, the farmers scrape the sides of the hills with a sycthe to remove weeds. Here, I learn the art first hand.
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Here is a smallholder farm in Kenya. This is potatoes on the right. Most farms are only about 1/4 to an acre in size.
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Milk is collected along the side of the road.
