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Down2earth project Aims to help rural East African communities adapt to climate change using state-of-the-art predictions of water scarcity and food insecurity. 

A major component of DOWN2EARTH involves improving the accuracy of forecasting climate variability in critical rainy seasons and assessing its impact on the total amount of water stored in soils for agriculture and deeper underground for drinking water supplies.

To find out, join us as we host the Africa Academy of Sciences Open Research https://aasopenresearch.org , Africas' oldest open access publishing house Hindawi Publishers https://www.hindawi.com/  and AfricArxiv, Africas' only preprint server https://africarxiv.org/  in this discussion.

The training kicks off from Tuesday, 19th May 2020 to Friday 22nd  May 2020. Target participants will be Postgraduate students and Academic Members of staff. It will be a vigorous exercise running from 11am to 12pm daily. To access google meet links for each category of training download PDF document attached.

Today, 14 May 2020, over 142 Current postgraduate Students and former Postgraduate students were trained on application of citation and referencing tool Known as ZOTERO. This tool works close as Mendeley but has significant differences, as Zotero is open source while Mendeley is partially free. With Zotero software for your research, you can organize your citations, share and if your computer collapses, your Zotero Library is intact.

Are a postgraduate student studying at College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Nairobi? You are invited for  1 hour (2-3 pm) Zotero Training on 14th May 2020  which will take place  online.  Join the meeting  via  meet.google.com/hpj-xdrk-aur or Join by phone +1 646-600-5507.  Your supervisors  are also invited. Curculate this communication  to fellow students and staff. Zotero is software for Citation management.

LARMAT student ( Mr. Stephen Kiama  Maina) undertaking PhD in Dryland Resource Management has been awarded by National Research Fund (NRF) for his research project for the year 2019/2020. We congratulate him for his competitive research work guided by the supervisors in this department. NRF has advertised new active calls.

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Two MSc students (Sharon Teyie and Fredrick Otieno) from Department of LARMAT who have been ‘investigating the charcoal value chain and the impacts of the production process on soil and vegetation properties” presented their research findings through poster in workshop on the charcoal production and its impacts on the Rangelands in Northwestern Kenya held from 17th 21 February 2020 in Marich Pass, Central Pokot. This was with guide from their supervisor, Dr. Oliver V.