The previous government of Uhuru Kenyatta operationalized this objective through the Agricultural Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy (ASTGS, 2019-2029), the creation of an Agricultural Transformation Office (ATO) in the office of the presidency, and the prioritization of food security in the Big Four Agenda. [...] In addition, the bureaucracy can be affected by the range of responsible ministries and agencies that command a mandate for particular policy dimensions of the value chain, inclusive of research and extension, fiscal policies, input access, and regulatory issues; the more responsible ministries and agencies in a policy domain, the larger the coordination challenge and the slower their ability to r. [...] The influence of the horizontal political settlement became clear in September 2020, when the operations of the Kenya Meat Commission were transferred to the Kenya Defense Forces under the Ministry of Defense. [...] For instance, for food safety, oversight from the point of transporting the cattle from the market to the butchery is under the Department of Veterinary Services within the Ministry of Agriculture; but from the butchery onwards, food safety becomes the mandate of the Ministry of Health. [...] For the sorghum value chain, the ongoing debate over excise taxes sometimes pit the Treasury and KRA against the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health.
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