New Bottom-Up Economic Plan for Food System Transformation in Kenya

5 December 2022. Leveraging the New Bottom-Up Economic Plan for Food System Transformation in Kenya by IFPRI

This seminar discussed results from an ongoing effort in Kenya by KIPPRA and CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies Initiative to model the expected impacts of implementing the plan on key socioeconomic outcomes such as the food system, diets, jobs, poverty, and inequality. To highlight the important links between the plan and food systems transformation, the seminar will also present recommendations from a new policy brief entitled “Transforming Food Systems in Kenya for a New Era of Growth and Prosperity.”

Welcoming remarks

• Rose Ngugi, Executive Director, KIPPRA
• Channing Arndt, Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Keynote address 

• Njuguna Ndung’u, Cabinet Secretary, Kenya National Treasury, and Economic Planning
• Mithika Linturi, Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development ( Message read by Kello Harsama, Permanent Secretary, State Department for Crop Development, Kenya Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development )

Estimated impacts of implementing the Bottom Up Economic Plan on food systems and social outcomes

• Benson Kiriga, Senior Policy Analyst, KIPPRA ( presentation )
• Lensa Omune, Research Officer, IFPRI ( presentation )

Transforming food systems to support the Bottom-Up Economic Plan

• Joseph Karugia, Principal Scientist – Agricultural Economist and Policy Expert, ILRI/CGIAR ( presentation )