Kenya’s flower industry cited the high cost of labor, energy and farm inputs as major challenges currently facing the sector. The Kenya Flower Council (KFC), an umbrella for flower growers, which ...

Bouquets of cash have been blooming in popularity in Kenya but recent warnings may slow the trend.

Aldi Switzerland completed its 'Rose Programme' in Kenya, aimed at improving the lives of workers on Fairtrade-certified flower farms.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Workers sort flowers for export. [Antony Gitonga, Standard] It is a chilly morning and ...

On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses. Anne (not her real name) is a ...

NAIVASHA, May 19 (Reuters) - Farmers in the hub of Kenya's thriving flower industry fear the rise in fuel prices in east Africa's biggest economy could harm one of the country's top exchange earners ...

Flower farm Star Bright Holdings is set to receive a €11 million (Sh1.6 billion) loan from the International Finance Corporation to fund additional investments in its farms in Kenya and Ethiopia.The ...

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) — When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from shore. The farm was on 1.5 acres (0.6 ...