Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mismanagement of Kenya's once globally dominant pyrethrum industry has dealt a harsh blow to the ...

For the last 14 years, Ian Shaw has been running Kapi Ltd - steering it into one of the region’s largest manufacturers of pyrethrum products. This is after he settled in Kenya in 2008. The 58-year-old ...