Kenya’s Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor represents one of the continent’s most ambitious efforts to link infrastructure, trade, and regional growth. The corridor stretches from the Indian Ocean at Lamu to the borderlands of Turkana, cutting across nine counties that together account for nearly seventy percent of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands. These drylands are home to more than ten million people, most of whom depend on livestock and small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods.

Although often discussed in terms of roads, ports, and pipelines, LAPSSET’s potential extends far beyond transport and logistics. If well designed, it could reshape Kenya’s agricultural landscape, connect remote producers to markets, and drive investment into value chains that have long been constrained by isolation and high costs.

A Current Geography for Agriculture

The corridor traverses some of Kenya’s most underdeveloped but resource-rich regions. Improved connectivity has already begun to shift economic patterns.



Feasibility studies suggest that transport costs in northern Kenya could fall by up to forty percent once the main highways and rail links are completed. This alone could make commercial agriculture viable in areas that were once considered too remote to sustain consistent trade.

One of the most significant enablers will be water. The planned High Grand Falls Dam on the Tana River, with a storage capacity of 5.6 billion cubic meters, is set to irrigate over four hundred thousand acres of farmland and generate up to one thousand megawatts of power. For the first time, reliable irrigation could support large-scale horticulture, grain, and oilseed production across parts of Kitui, Garissa, and Tana River counties, integrating local farmers into regional and export markets.

At the same time, the corridor passes through the heart of Kenya’s livestock economy. In counties such as Garissa, Isiolo, Marsabit, and Turkana, livestock contributes more th

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