The Institute’s main focus is research on beef production, marketing and utilisation. The Institute is located in Lanet, Nakuru County, about 9km from Nakuru town, off the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway. It has centres in Garissa, Lanet, Mariakani and Trans Mara.

The Institute’s mandate is to promote demand-driven beef research aimed at improving productivity of beef cattle. The Institute has the following broad objectives:

a) To generate and promote technologies and innovations for demand-driven beef product value chains.
b) To develop and promote markets and marketing strategies for beef product value chains.
c) To facilitate and advocate policy option for enhancing demand-driven beef product value-chains.
d) To strengthen the capacity for implementing beef product value chains research.
e) To enhance availability of knowledge, information, and technologies on beef product value chain research.

Contacts
Institute Director,
Beef Research Institute
P.O. Box 230-70100, Garissa, Kenya
Tel: + 020 8044936
e-mail: director.bri@kalro.org; Website: www.kalro.org