Agribusiness Deep Dive, Kenya

Client: IFC,  World Bank

April 2018

The team member at WhitePeak was engaged by World Bank to provide secondary research inputs and provide a holistic view of Kenya's agriculture sector. A significant amount of academic literature, government statistics, and alternate research sources were analysed to develop a hypothesis, which was validated on the field by our principal consultant. Subsequent to the on-field primary research and expert interviews an accurate and comprehensive document was presented to the client.

The final document included

• A broad study of Kenya's business climate describing the agriculture sector, relevant policies, government strategy, infrastructure, and innovation systems and technology.
• A comprehensive study of support services in the country such as - access to finance, storage, access to power, transport, packaging, and Market Information Systems.
• An extensive study of Value Chain nodes such as - Research and Development, agri-inputs supply, production and post-production, processing, and distribution and marketing
• A thorough study of Market linkages of Value Chain actors enumerating the various trends, and models.
• Identifying Opportunities and Challenges in the value chains of various crops such as maize, tea, coffee, floriculture, horticulture, dairy, mango, avocado, macadamia nuts, and potato.