From Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Development-Kenya Kenya recently held the first-ever Food Systems Conference that was aimed at giving recommendations and actions to support the implementation of the Bottom-Up Economic Plan. In his opening remarks that were delivered by PS State Department for Crops Development Kello Harsama, Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi said that […]
NEW PUBLICATION: Impacts of implementing the bottom-up economic plan of jobs, poverty, and food security in Kenya..
By: Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, Benson Kiriga, Joshua Laichena, Juneweenex Mbuthia, Rose Ngugi, Lensa Omune, James Thurlow This policy note presents results from an economy-wide model to assess the expected impacts of implementing the Bottom-Up Economic Plan in Kenya. The economywide modelling results suggest that the design of the Bottom-Up Economic Plan is consistent […]
A GLIMPSE INTO THE GENDERED IMPACTS OF COVID-19 IN RURAL KENYA.
A GLIMPSE INTO THE GENDERED IMPACTS OF COVID-19 IN RURAL KENYA. by: Harriet Mawia, IFPRI Kenya office and Claudia Ringler, IFPRI Washington DC. Social Distancing in the Market – Kenya Photo: World Bank/Sambrian Mbaabu If you look at traffic in Nairobi or go to a market in many parts of Kenya, you might think that […]
Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crisis on Food Systems and Poverty in Kenya
The CGIAR has launched the National Policies and Strategies (NPS) for Food, Land, and Water Systems Transformation. NPS has been co-created with national and international partners with the main objectives of building policy coherence, responding to crises, and integrating policy tools at national and subnational levels in six countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; […]
Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty
Much of the early attention on the Russian-Ukraine conflict’s food security impacts has been concentrated on countries highly dependent on wheat imports from the Black Sea region.