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Margaret Riungu on her farm in Meru, on November 21, 2019. [File, Standard]
Thousands of women driving Kenya’s dairy industry remain locked out of formal financing due to limited ownership of land and productive assets.
This, in turn, hinders investment and growth in one of the country’s most important agricultural value chains, a new report has found.
The Kenya National Women in Dairy Report 2026 shows that 65 per cent of women dairy farmers identify lack of collateral as the biggest obstacle to accessing credit, despite their central role in milk production and household food security.
