What the Kenyan agriculture press is reporting right now

A price series says what a market did. It says nothing about a subsidy announced on Tuesday, a plant being built, or a border closing. One call returns what the Kenyan agriculture press has carried, sorted into commodities and signal types.

2 questions under /api/partner/v1/market. 1 priced per answer at 4¢ a call; the rest are metered as ordinary calls.

The 2 questions

QuestionWhat comes backCallFiltersPrice
The same news signals as an RSS feed, for a reader or an inbox Not a question, a channel: auth is the api_key query parameter, because feed readers cannot send headers. /news/feed.xml api_key, keywords, commodity, county, trust, days call rate
What is happening in the market right now? AI-extracted signals with the source and quote attached. /news commodity, county, country, signal_type, trust, days 4¢

Structured, not a headline dump

Every item comes back with its tags attached: the commodity it concerns, drawn from a fixed list of 23 covering staples, cash crops, inputs and fuel; the kind of claim it makes (price level, direction of price, demand or supply, input cost, policy move, production figure, new entrant, product launch, partnership, government programme); and a trust tier, high, medium or low. The tier judges the source. It says nothing about whether the news is good.

Filter on those 3 and you get a usable signal. Ignore them and you get a press review.

How to read the trust tier

A low-trust item is not false. It comes from a source we would not build a decision on by itself. Treat it as something to watch until a high-trust source says the same thing. The tiers let an integration make that distinction automatically; a human skimming headlines rarely does.

Roughly 7 in 10 items carry a national tag instead of a county one. That share describes the press, not a flaw in the tagging: most of what the agriculture press publishes is about the country as a whole.

The feed, and why it is billed differently

The same signals are served as RSS. A reader, an inbox or a chat channel can subscribe without anybody writing an integration. That entry is metered as an ordinary call rather than as an answer, because a feed hands over items it already holds and computes nothing new.

Regulatory and legal signals answer the other half of the same question. The press reports what is being said about a subsidy, a levy or a ban; the legal record reports what was gazetted. The 2 do not always arrive together.

The data underneath

Every answer on this page is computed on the datasets below, and each of them can also be pulled row by row with the same key if you would rather do the arithmetic yourself.

  • Agriculture news signals for East Africa, dailyDaily signals extracted from East African agriculture news in 5 languages, each typed by commodity, place, signal type, direction and horizon, with the article, a verbatim quote, a publisher trust tier and the extractor's confidence. 15 fields.
  • Agricultural regulation signals for East Africa, weeklyWeekly signals from the East African legal record with instrument, document reference, stage, effective date, comment deadline, the obligation created and a verbatim quote, keyed to the country and commodity vocabulary of the price layer. 18 fields.

Questions not on this list

Signals filtered to your own suppliers, competitors and regulatory exposure, delivered as a digest on the schedule your desk works to, or a back-file of the tagged items over a period you need to account for. Work like that is scoped in a conversation and quoted; the per-answer rate does not apply to it.

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