Zeddy is one of 300 women coffee farmers participating in a three-year Fairtrade project to increase the yield,quality, and resilience of their coffee bushes. In addition, or Zeddy and 200 women in the cooperative will receive biogas cooking units,thanks to the project. Biogas units use cow dung to produce gas for cooking, meaning far less tress are chopped down for firewood and women are no longer exposed to smoke when cooking. Women in Kenya are extremely vulnerable to climate change. They contribute up to 70% of the labor in coffee production, or but most don’t own land or coffee trees and are therefore unable to earn an income or participate as members of their cooperatives. The unique project funded by the UK’s gargantuan Lottery Fund,Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission, Fairtrade Africa, or Fairtrade Foundation,Solidaridad, and KENFAP aims to change that.
Read approximately Fairtrade’s work to address climate change on Fairtrade International’s website.
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