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SCFCU success is based on vertical integration through: producer–buyer linkages, direct export<br />
of members’ coffee, provision of warehouse services, and provision of saving and credit<br />
services for members. Coffee quality has been improved by education and training to ensure<br />
quality production and processing from seedling production to export, with SCFCU committed<br />
at every step in the chain.<br />
Emerging or unresolved challenges. Production problems including pests and diseases,<br />
especially coffee wilt disease affects both yield and quality and requires ongoing research and<br />
improved management practices. Although the volume of coffee exports and its quality is high,<br />
coffee sold locally is often of lower quality.<br />
The use by Ethiopia of a number of coffee trademarks requires resolution with international<br />
corporations.<br />
Lessons learned for scaling up. Vertical integration along the value chain has ensured that<br />
producers obtain a fair share of the final value. SCFCU involvement in production, processing<br />
and marketing has ensured good quality at reasonable prices with the whole sector being<br />
owned and managed by farmers and their employees.<br />
Kenya’s dairy sector<br />
The dairy industry in Kenya is largely based largely on intensive smallholder production<br />
supported by free-market processing, transport and marketing. Technologies that have<br />
supported growth of the industry include improved breeds, zero-or semi-zero grazing<br />
and feeding regimes, and market liberalisation that enabled smallholders to participate<br />
in formal milk markets. The industry evolved from an initially open market system in<br />
the first half of the 20 th century to a near monopoly industry for much of the second<br />
half, before being liberalised during the 1990s. During this latter period rapid upward<br />
trends in milk production have occurred with over 70 percent of farm households and<br />
600,000 smallholder farmers producing over 75 percent of national milk production.<br />
The country’s per capita dairy production is ranked the highest in sub-Saharan Africa<br />
(SSA). A broad array of support institutions, both public and private, has played key<br />
roles at different stages in the country’s dairy development. Government regulation has<br />
driven many of the key policy changes while donors, NGOs and the private sector have<br />
supported smallholder production and marketing initiatives.<br />
Kenya was selected as a Dairy Centre of Excellence in 2011.<br />
Initial context. Kenya’s dairy industry emerged during the first half of the 20 th century with<br />
the introduction of improved breeds of cattle by white settlers. At that time dairy production<br />
was mainly a large-scale commercial farmer activity supported by public sector quarantine<br />
laws, veterinary and artificial insemination (AI) services. The dairy industry evolved from a free<br />
market during the first half of the 20 th century to a monopolistic and finally a liberalised industry<br />
from 1992 (EPZA, 2005). The drivers of innovation in the dairy industry have been multifaceted,<br />
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