In Kenya’s agricultural sector, information is both abundant and elusive. Countless reports, surveys, and datasets exist, yet they remain scattered, inconsistent, and difficult to integrate. Policymakers, researchers, and investors often spend weeks stitching together fragmented data to answer urgent questions: Which counties are driving growth? Where are yields declining? How is investment translating into impact?
Strathmore University’s Agrifood Innovation Centre (SAFIC) has introduced the Kenya Agri Atlas, a groundbreaking digital platform designed to bring clarity, accuracy, and transparency to the country’s food and agricultural ecosystems. By consolidating macro, crop, and livestock data into one intuitive dashboard, the Atlas transforms static numbers into interactive, meaningful insights.
Developed to support evidence-based decision-making, the platform provides national perspectives on agricultural performance, value chains, regional dynamics, and the enabling environment shaping sector growth. Users can explore agriculture’s contribution to GDP, analyze trends across subsectors, and assess how government expenditure influences thematic areas and state departments. This visual approach saves policymakers, analysts, investors, and researchers countless hours previously spent navigating scattered datasets.
A defining feature of the Kenya Agri Atlas is its rich view of international trade dynamics. Users can track import and export values by commodity, analyze destination markets, and uncover emerging global trends that influence Kenya’s competitiveness. These granular insights offer a strategic advantage to exporters, agribusinesses, and regulators seeking to unlock new commercial opportunities.
Beyond production and trade, the Atlas integrates employment statistics, revealing how the workforce is distributed across Kenya’s largest employer. County-level comparisons highlight where yields are falling, where livestock productivity lags, and where strategic investments can drive growth. For county planners, it pinpoints opportunities to strengthen local food systems; for researchers, it reveals patterns that inspire new studies.
What truly sets the Kenya Agri Atlas apart is its interactivity. It is not merely a database it is a dynamic tool for exploration, analysis, collaboration, filtering, and exporting insights for reporting and planning. Users can move seamlessly between national snapshots and county-level detail, filter data by commodity, and track changes over time, bringing clarity where complexity once prevailed.
Built on verified national and regional sources, the platform ensures transparency, comparability, and trustworthiness. It is designed to be accessible to government analysts, development partners, investors, academics, journalists, and the private sector providing a shared data foundation for coordinated agricultural action.
SAFIC’s vision for the platform goes beyond visualization. The Kenya Agri Atlas lays the groundwork for advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and digital integration aligning with Kenya’s transition toward smarter, AI-driven agricultural systems. As food systems face increasing pressure from climate change, population growth, and volatile global markets, the ability to see and understand the full picture has never been more critical.
By engaging with the Atlas, users move beyond isolated statistics to uncover the story behind Kenya’s food systems where opportunities are emerging, where challenges persist, and where strategic investment can make the greatest impact.
The Kenya Agri Atlas is not just mapping data; it is mapping the nation’s agricultural future one insight at a time. visit our website to interact with Kenya Agri Atlas
Article by SAFIC Communications
