{"id":4206,"date":"2019-07-30T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"livestock-key-to-kenyas-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/30\/livestock-key-to-kenyas-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock Key To Kenya\u2019s Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By AGGREY OMBOKI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\u2019s livestock\nsector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor\nthe country\u2019s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new\nsurvey showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Official estimates by\nthe Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) show that the human population\npresently stands at 47 million and is projected to grow to 96 million by 2050 \u2014\npilling pressure on food supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the next three\ndecades, the country population is expected to double to 96 million and nearly\n50 percent of the people to live in urban areas vis-\u00e0-vis 27 percent today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;GDP (gross\ndomestic product) per capita is projected to increase by over 140 percent by\n2050,\u201d UN agency Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report after\na study in 21 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a consequence, the\ndemand for animal-source foods will exponentially increase. In response to this\ndemand, the livestock sector will deeply transform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Projections suggest\nthat between 2015 and 2050, not only the cattle and chicken population will\nincrease by 94 and 375 percent respectively but there will also be major productivity\ngains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy 2050 the livestock\nsector will supply an additional 7.8 million tonnes of milk, beef and chicken\nmeat to the population, an increase of about 150 percent with respect to\ntoday,\u201d FAO said&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/Livestock-key-to-Kenya-s-food-security\/3815418-5214642-cvu815\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AGGREY OMBOKI Kenya\u2019s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country\u2019s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}