This post is a cross-posted from ILRI A study published in the April 2023 issue of Current Developments in Nutrition has put forth new empirical evidence on the effect of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in behaviour and government restrictions in Kenya on dairy supply chains and urban and peri-urban household food access. The study focused on milk sold […]
Innovative Approaches towards Agricultural Risk Management
By Berber Kramer and Gabriel Munene Laiboni Kenya’s agricultural sector is very important to its economy. However, as in other African countries south of the Sahara, it is increasingly vulnerable to vagaries of climate change, with climate-related risks affecting food production, food and income security, and having spillover effects to the wider economy. In the absence […]
Developing and implementing Picture-Based Advisories (PBA) for farmers in Kenya
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, BERBER KRAMER AND BENJAMIN KIVUVA IFPRI’s picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative, recognized as a CGIAR@50 Innovation and active since 2016, relies on participating farmers to upload smartphone pictures of their fields at intervals throughout the growing season. In the event of bad weather, pests, disease, or other problems that harm the crops, the photos are used to […]
Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
National Treasury and Planning Cabinet Secretary Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u (left) and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development Principal Secretary Kello Harsama discuss Kenya's new Bottom-Up Economic Plan. Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex domestic and global challenges. “The Bottom-Up approach is about making sure that markets work, and more […]
CGIAR Initiatives, NPS and Foresight, Capacity Sharing Workshops Series on Building Kenya Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) kicked off a six-day workshop on September 19, 2022 in Nakuru, Kenya. The workshop aimed to share capacity on Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs), and the standardized toolkit for building SAM. This forms part of Kenya’s Capacity Sharing Workshops Series under the CGIAR Initiatives on National Policies and Strategies (NPS), […]