Land and Water Management

Vincent Kipkirui, a MSc student in. Land and Water Management at the Department of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), University of Nairobi represented Kenya and Transfo Green World, Kericho in the United Nations Convention on Trade and Development meeting held in Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates from 16th – 202th October, 2023.

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.