Research and Development in Kenya

ICIPE's mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of people in the tropics

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) is a government research institute with research programmes in food crops, horticultural and industrial crops, livestock and range management, land and water management, and socio-economics. This includes several activities related to the potato crop.

Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) is the government parastatal whose responsibility is to assure the quality of agricultural inputs and produce to prevent adverse impact on the economy, the environment and human health.