The Department of LARMAT in partnership with VSF-Suisse has been supporting communities’ capacity
building on sustainable rangeland management under Biovision-funded Building Drought Resilience in
Invasive species have continued to be a big threat to sustainable ecosystems management in many parts of the world. Invasions in the world have been increasing as a result globalization, population increase and increasing human activities to the environment.
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.
