A CABI study leads to an assessment of Kenya’s dairy and beef sectors and opportunities for US investment

Published 2024년 9월 25일

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A CABI-led study has been included in a USDA-FAS GAIN report, highlighting opportunities for US investment in Kenya's dairy and beef sectors. The report emphasizes the sectors' contribution to Kenya's economic growth but notes their inability to meet domestic demand. It outlines challenges such as low productivity, inadequate market infrastructure, and weak animal health services, but also identifies potential solutions including technical capacity building, improved trade, and technology transfer from the US. The report suggests that strengthening farmer capacity through modern dairy demonstration farms, improved access to farm credit, and establishing market information systems could enhance the sectors' efficiency and resilience.

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A CABI-led study has resulted in the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) publishing a Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report which assesses Kenya’s dairy and beef sectors and opportunities for US investment.Scientists from CABI’s regional centre for Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya, undertook research and analysis of the livestock value chain in Kenya across two tiers to see if it might be further strengthened through investments, trade and collaborations with the United States agricultural sector.The findings of the research have now fed into the USDA-FAS GAIN report which highlights that the Kenyan dairy and beef sectors are important drivers of the country’s economic growth, yet both sectors are unable to meet domestic demand.Opportunities for US technical capacity buildingThe challenges facing Kenya’s dairy and beef sectors present opportunities for US technical capacity building in research, knowledge, and technology ...

Source: Cabi