Livestock Solutions Exchange

AgThrive in partnership with the International Livestock Research Institute (with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) is implementing the Livestock and Poultry Solutions Exchange.

The Solutions Exchange is a multifaceted, national-level approach to unlock more investment for impactful and sustainable solutions in the livestock and poultry sectors. It is built around the simple fact that very little capital flows into these sectors; livestock and poultry SMEs are underfinanced, limiting their potential for impact and scale. The Solutions Exchange is an ecosystems approach to catalyzing finance, working with the critical players--investors, businesses and their partners, and supporting actors--to build knowledge and understanding, capacity and relationships/partnerships. 

Key Activities

Builds Investor Partnerships

  • Builds an understanding of investor strategies and priorities and the constraints and opportunities they see in livestock investing.

  • Builds relationships with investors for an on-going dialogue to problem-solve on unlocking investment for livestock.

  • Sources SME and PPP Solutions:

  • Develops country-level pipelines of high potential SME livestock and poultry businesses and PPPs that meet impact criteria.

  • Targets businesses based on investor priorities and investment appetite.

Supports Businesses to be Investor Ready

  • Identifies capacity requirements of businesses and engages ecosystem actors around filling these gaps.

  • Provides scaled capacity building through virtual training platforms.

  • Delivers 1:1 capacity for select livestock and poultry SMEs to prepare them to pitch to investors.

Makes Connections

  • Engages in matchmaking of investors to livestock and poultry SMEs and PPPs in pitch events and through widely-shared (100+ investors) investment teasers.

  • Creates space for livestock and poultry SMEs to connect with investors but also with other businesses, researchers and ecosystem actors who can be critical partners in their path to growth and impact.  

  • Widely disseminates study results to livestock practitioners and investors to stimulate an on-going dialogue about increasing livestock investment and so that the data can be used as a tool for others to use in their efforts to stimulate livestock investment.

Impact targets

Food security, Climate adaptation and resilience

Updates

  • Recruiting businesses: Are you an SME working in the livestock or poultry sectors in Kenya with a clear investment need to support growth and impact? Apply to the Livestock Solutions Exchange to receive investment readiness support and an opportunity to pitch to interested investors!

  • Hosting the 2nd Kenya Livestock Investor Meeting and Pitch Event in June 2025

  • Read our report “Unlocking Investment for the Kenyan Livestock Sector”