Kenya’s Child Malnutrition Response Needs a More Resilient RUTF Supply Chain
Kenya has a malnutrition crisis that the data makes impossible to ignore. Across the arid and semi-arid counties of northern and eastern Kenya, child wasting rates run at two to four times the national average, with no sign of structural improvement. Kenya’s therapeutic nutrition pipeline remains significantly dependent on imported supply alongside local production. And the supply chain delivering them is fragile: concentrated in distant European manufacturers, exposed to global logistics disruptions, and carrying cost structures that compress the number of children any given procurement budget can reach. There is a better answer, and it is geographically closer, operationally more resilient, and cost-competitive without any compromise on quality. India – the world’s second-largest groundnut producer, with certified RUTF manufacturers already supplying East Africa is where Kenya’s procurement strategy should be looking. In this blog, we’ll deep dive into the nuances of import...