A social enterprise for Kenya's ASAL regions
ASALvest helps pastoralist families stop depending on drought relief and start running their own climate-ready livestock business — turning emergency aid into lasting community wealth, without giving up their way of life.
For generations, pastoralism turned drylands into wealth. Today, more frequent droughts are wiping out herds faster than families can rebuild them.
Pastoralist families already own valuable assets. They need a better system that helps those assets grow in value instead of disappearing during the next drought.
To turn pastoralists' recurring drought losses into lasting income — building profitable, climate-smart livestock businesses that families own, and giving funding partners a sustainable alternative to repeat relief.
An East and Horn of Africa where pastoralism grows from a way to survive into a way to prosper, with herding families owning climate-ready livestock enterprises.
ASALvest pools members' animals and fattens them on a modern, climate-ready feedlot. Over 90-day rounds, thin animals are brought up to weight, then sold to strong buyers across the region and the Gulf — and the profit is shared back with the families who own the animals.
Year-round irrigated, drought-resistant grasses keep animals fed even when rains fail.
Balanced diets bring Boran cattle, Galla goats and camels to market weight in 90 days.
Drought early-warning data lets us buy animals before a shock, turning herds into cash, not losses.
Families become part-owners who share profits, keeping wealth in the drylands.
Fairer pricing and access to bigger buyers so families never sell cheap in a crisis.
Become a member.
90-day climate-smart feedlot fattening.
Access stronger buyers.
70% Member / 30% ASALvest.
Owns livestock but remains exposed to drought.
Joins the ASALvest ecosystem.
Livestock begins generating recurring returns.
Builds additional income streams.
Creates lasting wealth and resilience.
Whether you herd or you fund, you build the same future — a stronger, drought-ready livestock economy owned by the community.
Stop selling in panic at rock-bottom prices. Put your animals to work, keep your ownership, and earn.
Fund a lasting solution instead of paying the same relief bill again and again.
Using business income and start-up funding, ASALvest delivers the drought-resilience and livestock goals national and county governments have already promised but can't fully fund.
Puts NDMA's own promise to help families "graduate" off aid into action, protects the livestock value it's meant to safeguard, and feeds live herd and weather data into early-warning systems.
Delivers the feedlots, sale-yards, livestock insurance and cooperatives county plans call for — but often can't fund — at little cost to the county budget.
Supports Kenya's Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda and global goals on poverty, hunger, climate action and stronger dryland livelihoods.
When my animals were dying, I sold them for almost nothing. With ASALvest, they would have been working for me instead.ASALvest Cooperative member