{"id":37178,"date":"2025-04-25T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/25\/kenya-how-brokers-have-turned-the-agricultural-economy-upside-down\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:01:47","slug":"kenya-how-brokers-have-turned-the-agricultural-economy-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/25\/kenya-how-brokers-have-turned-the-agricultural-economy-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: how brokers have turned the agricultural economy upside down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya\u2019s food supply chain is looking less than hearty&#8230; Farmers are selling their produce low but urban customers are paying more than ever for staples. At the heart of this disconnect are brokers \u2014 middlemen who dictate market prices, squeezing both farmers and buyers. With no regulation to control their influence, these traders have turned Kenya\u2019s agricultural economy into a system where only they profit, leaving both ends of the chain struggling. Report by Olivia Bizot.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s food supply chain is looking less than hearty&#8230; Farmers are selling their produce low but urban customers are paying more than ever for staples. At the heart of this disconnect are brokers \u2014 middlemen who dictate market prices, squeezing both farmers and buyers. With no regulation to control their influence, these traders have turned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-37178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}