The Kenya Fertilizer Dashboard is Live!

September 1, 2020 Agriculture Charlene Migwe-Kagume, Beverley Hatcher-Mbu
News/Events, Program

We are thrilled to announce that the Kenya Fertilizer Dashboard, under the Visualizing Insights for African Agriculture (VIFAA) program is live and available to the public.

VIFAA Kenya Dashboard

Click to visit the new VIFAA Kenya website

Government, private sector, and research institution stakeholders at a VIFAA Kenya Fertilizer Dashboard co-design workshop

Over the last year, Development Gateway has worked in close partnership with Africafertilizer.org(AFO), the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, County governments, numerous private sector companies, and development partners to understand the cycle of demand, supply, and use of Kenya’s fertilizer data. Together we have co-designed a dashboard to address key decision-making needs, prioritizing data such as fertilizer price, production and consumption data, and identifying new opportunities to collaborate in closing data gaps.

The interactive, user-friendly site enables users to:

  • View key data on fertilizer price, use, availability, and policy in one place;
  • Interact with different products and crops across years of data; and
  • Download data in a variety of formats.

The Kenya Dashboard is the first of three, with dashboards for Nigeria and Ghana soon to follow. Check back for further details!

For a deeper dive into the indicators on the dashboard, read blog 1 and blog 2 in this series.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Kenya Fertilizer Dashboard, please contact Charlene Migwe cmigwe@developmentgateway.org or Vinisha Bhatia-Murdach vbhatia@developmentgateway.org. This work has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

VIFAA Going Forward

In November 2022, AfricaFertilizer (AFO), our partner on the Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) program, rebranded and launched a new website. This website includes the integration of country-specific VIFAA dashboards, which were previously housed in separate websites. By integrating the country-specific dashboards as well as fertilizer data on trade, production, consumption, and retail prices for 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the new AFO data allows easier comparative analysis across countries and contributes its quota to the advancement of food security throughout Africa. 

We have updated the previous country-specific dashboards links to now redirect you to AFO’s new website in order to ensure you are accessing the most up-to-date resources.   

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