Kenya's coffee crop nosedives due to high temperatures, low prices

Coffee farmers deliver their produce at Kiamariga Coffee Factory in Mathira, Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu/Standard]

Kenya’s farmers are grubbing up their coffee bushes to plant other crops as low prices and climate change drive small growers to the brink of collapse.

Arabica coffee, the higher-quality variety that Kenya grows, ends up in speciality beverages from Berlin to San Francisco.