By Nita BhallaNAIROBI, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British charity Christian Aid warned on Monday. Tea is one of Kenya’s top foreign currency earners, along with tourism and remittances, employing about three million people. When the climate changed, the production of tea in my farm dropped,” said Richard Koskei, 72, a tea farmer from Kericho in Kenya’s western highlands. Kenya is highly vulnerable to climate change, with projections suggesting its average annual temperature will rise by up to 2.5 degrees Celsius between 2000 and 2050, said Christian Aid’s report. “And yet it is we who are suffering the brunt of the impacts of climate change.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 10, 2021 12:00 UTC