Strengthening Kenya's meat value chain through a private sector-led roundtable and B2B deal room among processors and feedlotters

Kenya's meat industry is a vital component of the national economy, contributing significantly to food security, rural livelihoods, and export earnings. The sector supports thousands of pastoralists, traders, processors, feedlot operators, and auxiliary service providers. Despite its potential, the industry continues to face key challenges, including inefficiencies across the value chain, inconsistent quality standards, poor coordination among stakeholders, limited access to reliable inputs, and weak market linkages.

Feedlot systems, which focus on intensive livestock finishing, have emerged as strategic mechanisms for improving animal productivity, meat quality, and market readiness. Conversely, meat processors serve as critical nodes in linking domestic and export markets, especially through value addition and compliance with sanitary standards. However, the limited collaboration between these two actors feedloters and meat processors hinders optimal performance across the value chain.

To address this, the APMD platform is organizing a roundtable discussion that aims to facilitate the exchange of insights on livestock production and processing needs, improve value chain efficiency, enhance private sector integration, establish formal market linkages, and raise meat quality standards.

Overall Objective:
To enhance private sector integration and strengthen coordination between feedloters and meat processors for a more competitive, sustainable, and market-oriented meat value chain in Kenya.

Specific Objectives:

1. Facilitate dialogue and experience-sharing between feedloters and meat processors on production, processing, and market demands.
2. Identify gaps, opportunities, and priorities for collaboration along the meat value chain.
3. Promote structured commercial linkages through a facilitated deal room to encourage investment and formal supply contracts.
4. Discuss policy, regulatory, and technical bottlenecks affecting value chain efficiency.
5. Explore mechanisms for improving meat quality standards, certification, and traceability systems.

The meeting will bring together an average of 25 stakeholders; including meat processors, feedloters/pastoralists and policy makers