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The International Virtual Course 2023 (IVC 2023): “Tackling Climate Change through Global Learning” focuses on cross-disciplinary understanding of the trends and impacts of climate change on agrofood systems across the world, and co-developing innovative solutions for climate related challenges. The on-going course brings together academic staff and postgraduate students from Switzerland, Kenya, India & Brazil, with emphasis on collaboration across cultural borders via virtual channels.

Objective: To guide the students and researchers on how to install and use Zotero open source online referencing and citation tool in the research process to automatically create references.

Title: Training on Zotero Referencing & Citation Tool

The University of Nairobi conducted a two day inhouse training for all chairmen of departments on 5th and 6th January, 2023 at the KCB Leadership Centre in Karen. 

We are pleased to announce call for applications for undergraduate students in  third year of study in East African universities.  This will be a  blended training  via online, face to face lectures and field based practical sessions on Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity (AA).

The training will take place from 14th August to 9th September 2022

Deadline for application will be on  Thursday, 14th July 2022

Dr. Oscar Koech and Dr. Oliver Vivian Wasonga from the Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural technology, University of Nairobi have been working with pastoral communities in Samburu County on sustainable management of Prosopis juliflora as feed resource.  

There is increasing deforestation in many part of the country due to increasing energy demands by communities. This has greatly affected critical rangeland ecosystems that provided habitat to diverse biodiversity of both livestock and wildlife.

The Dean Faculty of Agriculture (FoA), Prof. Moses Nyangito and the Chairman department of LARMAT Prof. Richard Onwonga on 2nd February,2022 awarded, Ms Manirakiza Isidonie and Mr Felix Nimbona certificates of participation after successful completion of fellowship training at the FoA, University of Nairobi.  Mr. Felix and Ms. Isidonie are from Burundi, the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock and National Veterinary Laboratory.

Dr. Fredrick Wangombe, an experienced regional expertin feed ration formulation and feed processing at both small scale and large commercial feed manufacturing had the opportunity to contribute to regional feed production by training Ms. Manirakiza Isidonieand Mr.