On 8 September 2016, the International Livestock Research Institute and partners hold a working session at the 2016 African Green Revolution Forum on transforming dairy value chains in Africa: Pathways to prosperity.

Speakers from ILRI, GALVmed, Land O’Lakes and Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will be tackling two main questions:

• What are some of the promising approaches used to help smallholder dairy farmers and other value chain actors become more prosperous?
• What are the some of the most promising lessons learned from dairy value chain transformation and productivity improvement that can be shared across the continent?

The session starts with a brief orientation on dairying and development prosperity by Jimmy W. Smith, Director General, International Livestock Research Institute. His remarks will be given a Kenyan focus by Andrew K. Tuimur, Permanent Secretary in the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

The focus then shifts to lessons and…