Kenya: Better Prices Lure Kitui Farmers Back to Cotton – If Seed, Rain and Young Farmers Follow

The landscape changes as the road winds into Kitui County.

The green that often signals the beginning of Kenya’s agricultural heartlands is hard to find here. Instead, the land stretches beneath a harsh sun, dotted with thorny bushes, sisal and the occasional baobab tree rising above the dry plains.

For miles, there is little indication that this is farmland.

But beneath the dry shrubs and sandy soils, farmers are preparing to plant a crop that has survived the changing fortunes of the region for…