The study is themed ” Key Drivers for Urban Growth: Case of Kenyan Cities” Cities are home to over half the global population and are centers of economic growth and innovation. By 2030, two thirds of the world population (5 billion people) is expected to live in cities. It is estimated the numbers will grow […]
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Kenya food systems has been experiencing volatilities due to periodic droughts that have resulted in crop failures as well as increasing costs of food. This makes it difficult for many Kenyan households to obtain sufficient, nutritious, and diverse food which results in malnutrition and unfavorable health outcomes (Ombima, 2023). Encouraging the production of indigenous crop
The leather industry is a strategic sub sector for Kenya as outlined in Vision 2030 and the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda 2022-2027, aimed at boosting manufacturing and export competitiveness. Through the Miscellaneous Fees and Levies Act No. 29 of 2016, the government introduced an export levy on raw hides and skins to support value addition,
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The Kenya Leather Development Policy, 2021 underscores the need to strengthen participation of MSEs into the leather industry value chain as a strategy to support growth of the leather industry. The leather sector value chain commences with farm/livestock subsector; abattoirs, slaughterhouses and trades of raw hides and skins; tanneries; leather manufacturers and trades of finished
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n Kenya, food loss and wastage amount to Ksh72 billion annually (Pedrotti et al., 2023). According to the 2021 Food Waste Index Report published by UNEP and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), each Kenyan discards around 99 kilograms of food per year, contributing to a total annual waste of 5.2 tones for the
