An independent data atlas for Kenya's food and agricultural sector.

Mission

Kenya's agricultural sector is one of the most studied parts of the country's economy — and one of the hardest to read at a glance. Figures are scattered across many publications, formats and release dates, each with its own coverage gaps. Stitching them together to answer a single question — "how big is Kenya's tea industry, really?" — costs days of expert analyst time.

The Atlas is a single explorable surface that sits on top of these scattered sources and lets a non-specialist read them coherently. It is not a primary research project. It does not collect new data. It cites, harmonises, visualises and explains.

Verified public sources, harmonised. One place to read Kenya's agricultural numbers — without flipping between five PDFs.— Atlas charter

Scope

The Atlas covers six topical chapters plus two reference chapters — eight chapters in total, each implemented as its own dashboard:

• Chapter 01 · Macroeconomy — agriculture's place in the national economy, GDP share, growth, public spending, the Maputo gap.
• Chapter 02 · Crops — maize, tea, coffee, horticulture, sugarcane, cut flowers, avocado.
• Chapter 03 · Livestock — cattle, dairy, poultry, sheep, goats, camel, pastoralism.
• Chapter 04 · Trade — agricultural exports, food imports, self-sufficiency, the trade balance.
• Chapter 05 · Counties — production rankings across all 47 devolved counties.
• Chapter 06 · Employment — workforce share, gender, age, formal vs informal, productivity.
• Chapter 07 · About — this page.
• Chapter 08 · About the data — how figures are collected, prepared, updated and cited.

Methodology

Each chart in the Atlas is built from a published source. The Atlas does not estimate, model or extrapolate beyond what a source explicitly publishes. Where the same indicator is reported by multiple sources at different values (which happens often), we choose one source per chart — based on the priority order below — and disclose the alternatives in the source line.

For commodity-by-county figures, we use official production statistics and, where one exists, the relevant commodity sector's own figures. Aggregated farmgate value is a bottom-up reconstruction from production volumes and farm-level prices.

Consistency

When two figures for the same indicator disagree, the Atlas prefers official Kenyan statistics, then harmonised national datasets, then international comparisons. Conflicts are resolved before publication, and every figure is shown with its date.

Units & horizons

The Atlas keeps the units used by the original Kenyan source where possible:

• Maize: 90-kg bags (the field standard).
• Tea, coffee, horticulture, livestock: metric tonnes / kilotonnes.
• Milk: litres / billion litres.
• Money: KSh nominal for domestic indicators; USD for trade indicators.

Time horizons run from 2000 (or earlier where the source supports it) to 2024, with the most recent calendar year refreshed quarterly.

Geography

Sub-national data is reported at the county level — Kenya's primary unit of devolved governance since 2013. There are 47 counties. Where a source publishes data only at the level of the eight former provinces (pre-2013) we either map it to counties or note the limitation explicitly.

Caveats

• Where a source publishes a single figure with no error bar, the Atlas reports that figure as published. It does not invent uncertainty bounds.
• Informal trade — particularly in livestock, milk and cross-border maize — is structurally undercounted in every Kenyan source. The Atlas notes this in chapter narratives but cannot itself correct for it.
• Drought years (2017, 2021, 2022) and the COVID-19 disruption (2020) materially distort year-on-year change. We always flag these explicitly.
• "Smallholder" is defined here as a farm holding under 5 hectares (the standard working threshold for Kenya).

How to use

Each chapter is a standalone dashboard. Click any chart's "Open dashboard" link to read it in context, or use the navigation bar to move between chapters. The "Related" cards at the bottom of each chapter point to the next most relevant dashboard.

For how figures are prepared and how to cite the Atlas, see About the data.

Update cycle

Official statistics are refreshed quarterly as new figures are published; market prices and growing conditions update daily. The current version is v2.0 (April 2026).

Partners

The Atlas is developed by the Strathmore Agri-Food Innovation Center (SAFIC).

License

All Atlas content — text, charts, derived datasets — is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You can copy, redistribute, adapt and build upon the work for any purpose, including commercially, provided you credit "Kenya Agri Atlas" and link back to this page. Underlying source data carries the licenses set by its publishers.

Contact

For corrections or methodology questions, please use the feedback form on the home page — replies come from a real human.