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The Chief Manager, Finance and Administration Mr Simphilicious Ochieng and Mr. Wilson Mutinda (Business development Manager) at University of Nairobi Enterprise Services (UNES) on 9th November, 2023, visited the Department of LARMAT to discuss modalities of partnering with LARMAT to develop the Kibwezi Field Station Agribusiness Centre of Excellence. The UNES team presented the concept note on various possible enterprises

Carolyne Kyalo from LARMAT, University of Nairobi and Dr. Klerkson Lugusa from United States International University Africa (USIU) facilitated a training on Rangeland Inventory, Assessment and Monitoring to Masaai Mara Wildlife Conservancy Association technical staff. The staff heads various dockets such as Natural Resource Management, gender and enterprises, education, Climate change, governance and to monitoring and evaluation.

Rangelands and their values, plant life forms (grassland, shrubland, desert, alpine, and some woodland ecosystems), have been facing a myriad of challenges in providing ecosystem goods and services that support the well-being of societies. The rangelands have continued to provide sufficient, safe and nutritious food to all people.

The East African Community in collaboration with partners Stockholm Environmental Institute, Bioinnovate Africa, among others, have combined efforts to develop policies to support bioeconomy for Africa.

SMARTGRAZE is funded through the RUFORUM GRA Graduate Research Grants. The project seeks to investigate the impacts of holistic planned grazing (HPG) on carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrious oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions, soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil properties, biomass production, diversity and nutritional quality, and livestock forage preferences in a semi-arid rangeland of Kajiado County, Kenya. Data will be collected from plots under HPG system and traditional grazing during the wet and dry seasons.

The Chairman, Department of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology(LARMAT), Prof. Richard Onwong'a  welcomes all 1^st Year Student who were registered on 25th September.

The following six postgraduate students from this department, having successfully completed their respective degree programmes, will be among the thousands of students to be conferred with degrees during the

On 15^th September, 2023 5(five) Masters of Science students undertaking MSc in Land and Water Management (2), and MSc in Range Management (3), virtually presented their research projects to th

Students undertaking BSC Management of Agro ecosystems and Environments will be presenting their attachment experience  on Thursday, 21st September, 2023, from 8.45am.

join us the link via :  meet.google.com/epp-tkzs-dgx

Congratulations to all our graduands who will be conferred with degrees on Friday, 22nd  September, 2023.The graduation will be physical.

Confirm that all marks entered in the SMIS are correct and all required units are complete.

• All fees should be cleared at least one month before graduation.
• Convocation fee should be paid before filling an Application for Graduation:

Convocation fee Ksh. 1,000.00

This payment is compulsory whether one attends the graduation ceremony or not