Emergency Locust Response Project (ELRP)
Sustainable Agricultural Livelihood Restoration, Rehabilitation and Resilience in Kenya
Emergency Locust Response Project (ELRP)
GUIDELINES ON SUSTAINABLE RUMINANT FEED AND NUTRITION SECURITY FOR KENYA

Table of Contents

 
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
Executive Summary
 
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background Information
1.2 Livestock Feed and Nutrition Situation in Kenya
1.3 Annual National Feed Demand and Supply
1.4 Feed and Nutrition Security
  References
   
CHAPTER 2
DRIVERS OF FEED AND NUTRITION INSECURITY
2.0 Drivers of feed And nutrition Insecurity
2.1 Rainfall performance
2.2 Drought
2.3 Pests and diseases
2.4 Unavailability and high cost of inputs
2.5 Overstocking
2.6 Feed resource losses
2.7 Land degradation
2.8 Insecurity and conflicts
2.9 Invasive plant species
2.10 Migration
2.11 Land fragmentation
2.12 Poor feed planning and budgeting
  References
CHAPTER 3
KEY PILLARS AND ISSUES ON RUMINANT FEED AND NUTRITION SECURITY
3.0 Key Pillars and Issues on Ruminant Feed and Nutrition Security
3.10 Pillar 1: Feed Availability
3.1.1 Strategic Issue 1. Low Feed Production
3.1.2 Strategic Issue 2. Limited strategic feed reserves
3.1.3 Strategic Issue 3. Feed Import Barriers
3.1.4 Strategic Issue 4. Unstructured Feed Markets
3.1.5 Strategic Issue 5. Inefficient Feed Transportation
3.2.0 Pillar 2: Feed Access
3.2.1 Strategic Issue 1. Limited Physical Access to Feeds
3.2.2 Strategic Issue 2. Limited Social Access to Feeds
3.2.3 Strategic Issue 3. Limited Economic Access to Feeds
3.3.0 Pillar 3. Feed Utilization
3.3.1 Strategic Issue 1. Poor Feed Quality
3.3.2 Strategic issue 2. Unsafe feed resources
3.3.3 Strategic Issue 3. Inadequate Feed Processing and Value Addition
3.4 Pillar 4. Feed Stability
3.4.1 Strategic Issue 1. Adverse Effects of Climate Change
3.4.2 Strategic Issue 2. Poor Economic Performance
3.4.3 Strategic Issue 3. Undeveloped Feed Markets
3.4.4 Strategic Issue 4. Weak Institutions
3.4.5 Strategic Issue 5. Unfavourable Policy, Legal and Regulatory Environment
3.4.6 Strategic Issue 6. Poor Social Factors
3.4.7 Strategic Issue 7. Unfavourable Political Situation
   
CHAPTER 4
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS RUMINANT FEED AND NUTRITION INSECURITY
4.0 Strategic Interventions to Address Ruminant Feed and Nutrition Insecurity
4.1.0 Pillar 1: Feed Availability
4.1.1 Intervention 1. Strategies to increase feed production
4.1.2 Intervention 2: Intervention to Enhance Strategic Feed Reserves
4.1.3 Intervention 3: Strategies to Improve the Availability of Commercial Feeds
4.1.4 Intervention 4: Strategies to Promote Efficient and Functional Feed Markets
4.1.5 Intervention 5: Strategies to Improve the Feed Transport System
4.2.0 Pillar 2: Feed Access
4.2.1. Intervention 1: Enhance Physical Access to Feeds
4.2.2 Intervention 2: Consider Social Concerns in Feed Access
4.2.3 Intervention 3: Strategies to Improve Economic Access to Feeds
4.3.0 Pillar 3: Feed Utilisation
4.3.1 Intervention 1: Strategies to Improve Feed Quality
4.3.2 Intervention 2: Strategies to Improve Feed Standards
4.3.3 Intervention 3: Strategies to Improve Feed Safety during Processing, Conservation, Storage and Transportation
4.3.4 Intervention 4: Strategies to Improve Feed Processing and Value Addition
4.4.0 Pillar 4 Feed stability
4.4.1 Intervention 1. Climate change mitigation and adaptation
4.4.2 Intervention 2. Improved economic performance
4.4.3 Intervention 3. Market stability
4.4.4 Intervention 4. Institutional stability
4.4.5 Intervention 5. Enabling policy and regulatory environment
4.4.6 Intervention 6. Livelihoods improvement
4.4.7 Intervention 7. Community conflict management
4.5.0 Summary of Strategic Livestock feed interventions and management through the drought cycle
4.5.1 Strategic Livestock feed management through phases of the drought cycle
4.5.2 Key Recommendations
  References
CHAPTER 5
FEED AND NUTRITION SECURITY OUTPUTS, OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS
5.1 Importance of Feed and Nutrition Security
5.2 Outputs
5.3 Outcomes
5.4 Impact
   
  Appendices