This is a parliamentary Act to promote and facilitate investment by assisting investors in obtaining the licences necessary to invest and by providing other assistance and incentives and for related purposes. The document describes investment as the contribution of local or foreign capital by an investor, including the creation or acquisition of business assets by or for a business enterprise and includes the expansion, restructuring, improvement or rehabilitation of a business enterprise. It clearly states that a local investor may apply to the authority for an investment certificate and a foreign investor who intends to invest in Kenya shall also apply to the authority for an investment certificate.

The National Agriculture Investment Plan accompanies the Agriculture Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy (ASTGS) to focus on agricultural transformation through commercialized and modern agricultural sector to achieve national food and nutrition security. It is a five-year plan to speed up agricultural development in alignment with the objectives of United Nation’s SDGs and the third medium-term plan of the Kenya Vision 2030.

The performance of the furniture and timber value chain in Kenya is crucial both to employment and growth in the country. Therefore this document is designed to provide a comprehensive value-chain analysis of the Kenyan furniture industry, including the timber sub-sector, identify the main challenges facing the furniture industry in Kenya and recommend critical interventions to stimulate the industry’s development.

Kenya’s textile and apparel sector has played a key role in anchoring the country’s deeper movement into middle income status and in serving as a source of gainful employment for its fast-growing, young population. Therefore, this report was developed to analyze the competitiveness of the textile and apparel sectors in Kenya, assess policy options, and recommend critical interventions to stimulate sector growth.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the training, registration and licensing of animal technicians, to provide for the regulation of the standards and practice of the profession of animal technicians, excluding matters concerning animal health and food safety, and for connected purposes.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment and administration of Bukura agricultural college, and for connected purposes. It establishes the college and defines its functions. Some of the functions is provided directly or in collaboration with other institutions of higher learning, facilities for education in agriculture and other ancillary subjects through the integration of teaching, research and effective application of extension services, to participate in the discovery, transmission and preservation of knowledge in agriculture and any other related field, to conduct examinations for and grant diplomas and such academic awards as may be provided in the statutes; and subject to this Act, to co-operate with the government in the planned development of agricultural education.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the cleansing of cattle. It provides that the minister may declare cattle cleansing areas where a provincial agricultural board has recommended to the minister that any area within the province for which that board is established should be a cattle cleansing area, the minister may, if he is satisfied that it will be of general benefit to the stock owners in the area to do so, by notice in the Gazette declare that area, or any part thereof, to be a cattle cleansing area.

An Act of parliament to consolidate and repeal various statutes relating to crops; to provide for the growth and development of agricultural crops and for connected purposes. The objective of this act is to accelerate the growth and development of agriculture in general, enhance productivity and incomes of farmers and the rural population, improve investment climate and efficiency of agribusiness and develop agricultural crops as export crops that will augment the foreign exchange earnings of the country, through promotion of the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of crops in suitable areas of the country.

This strategic plan identifies the objectives and expected outcomes based on four strategic focus areas which include: membership, member services, financial resource mobilization and institutional capacity building. The overall plan does not focus on the welfare of coffee farmers alone but also on climate change mitigation and sustainable development.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the improvement and control of the dairy industry and its products. It applies to any part of the non-scheduled areas, except in respect of dairy products produced in those areas and sold or intended for sale in the scheduled areas or any municipality or township unless the central agricultural board has been consulted.

An Act of parliament to provide for the establishment and functions of the Kenya agricultural and livestock research organization, to provide for organs of the organization, to provide for the coordination of agricultural research activities in Kenya, and for connected purposes. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya agricultural and livestock research organization and also defines its functions. The functions of the organization are to formulate policy and make policy recommendations to the cabinet secretary on agricultural research, regulate, monitor and ensure that all agricultural research undertaken by research institutes and other institutions or persons undertaking agricultural research is consistent with the national priorities specified in the relevant policy documents.

This an Act of parliament to establish the Kenya plant health inspectorate service as a regulatory body for the protection of plants, seeds and plant varieties and agricultural produce; to provide that the service shall be responsible for administering several other written laws and; for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya plant health inspectorate service in Nairobi. Its functions shall be to regulate matters relating to plant protection, seeds and plant varieties, and regulate import and export of plants and plant materials.

This is a parliamentary Act that establishes a commission to purchase cattle and small stock, and to acquire, establish and operate abattoirs, meat works, cold storage concerns and refrigerating works for the purpose of slaughtering cattle and small stock, processing by-products, preparing hides and chilling, freezing, canning and storing beef, mutton, poultry and other meat foods for export or for consumption within Kenya, and to confer certain exclusive rights upon the commission, and for connected purposes. The power of the commission shall include to acquire, erect, construct, establish and maintain abattoirs, meat works, ice and refrigerating works and cold storage concerns, and to operate the same for the purpose of slaughtering cattle and small stock, preparing hides and processing by-products and chilling, freezing, canning and storing beef, mutton, poultry and other meat foods and products and eggs, whether for export or for consumption within Kenya

Regulation 11 concerns with the registration of grower with irish potato collection centers. The authority shall annually collect data on the domestic production and consumption of Irish potatoes within the country to establish levels of surplus or deficit and advise the cabinet secretary on the exportation and importation of Irish potatoes.

This is a parliamentary Act that establishes an agricultural finance corporation and to prescribe its powers and duties. The established corporation will assist in the development of agriculture and agricultural industries by making loans to farmers, co-operative societies, incorporated group representatives, private companies, public bodies, local authorities and other persons engaging in agriculture or agricultural industries.

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the grading and inspection of agricultural produce to be exported, and generally for the better regulation of the preparation and manufacture thereof. Regulation 10 emphasizes that the minister may make rules, not inconsistent with this act, to provide for the inspection of animals the produce of which is intended for export, and the inspection of the premises in which animals are slaughtered, or in which produce is prepared, manufactured or otherwise dealt with; the inspection of produce, the fixing of grades, the place and manner of inspection and grading and branding of any produce and the manner in which different designations or grades of produce shall be branded or indicated, whether on the receptacle or on a certificate of the inspector or otherwise.

This is a parliamentary Act to prohibit trade in counterfeit goods, to establish the anti-counterfeit agency, and for connected purposes. The functions of the agency shall be to enlighten and inform the public on matters relating to counterfeiting, coordinate with national. regional or international organizations involved in combating counterfeiting.

This document is the revised edition of the 2008 Anti-counterfeit Act. It is an Act of parliament to prohibit trade in counterfeit goods, to establish the anti-counterfeit authority, and for connected purposes.

The regulatory document provides for the establishment of a board of agency under section 6 of the Anti-counterfeit Act. The board shall be responsible to the minister for all its powers, duties and functions under the Act.

The national forest programme has an overall goal to develop and sustainably manage, conserve, restore and utilise forests and allied resources for socio-economic growth and climate resilience. It was designed to increase forest cover, boost the forest sector’s contribution to the national economy, enhance resilience to climate change, and improve livelihoods.