Kenya and East Africa

Designed in partnership with the USAID/Kenya and East Africa Mission, this activity focuses on strengthening the competitiveness of regional agricultural commodities, including identifying key factors to regional competitiveness, identifying value chains that can be competitive, and suggesting interventions with the greatest potential to increase competitiveness in the selected value chains and the agriculture sector more broadly.

 
 

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Sowing the Seeds of Agricultural Trade in East Africa

With Policy LINK support, the Strategic Partners Group—a brain trust of donors, donor implementing partners, private sector associations, and companies—is exploring ways to boost food security through intra-regional trade.

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