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Friday, June 25, 2021 - 12:46
The Vice Chancellor, University of Nairobi, has appointed Prof. Richard N. Onwonga to serve as chairman of the Department of Land Resource Management and
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In Kenya, the distance between the livestock production areas and terminal markets is vast, making livestock movement a necessity. The condition of vehicles transporting livestock is, therefore, an important factor for animal welfare and meat quality. These two parameters are particularly
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Mandates of universities in east, central and southern Africa have considerably changed from their traditional teaching and research roles, to greater active involvement in the development agenda of their countries, a phenomenon referred to as the ‘third mission’. This has necessitated a change
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Agriculture is the backbone of most Sub - Saharan African economies accounting for 40 % of the GDP and 80% employment. Yet agricultural graduates have not been able to “hit the ground running” upon graduation. This study assessed the quality of agricultural graduates from Kenyan Universities in
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 15:31
ARM 503: Range Management in Pastoral Societies is a first semester course offered to students taking MSc. Range Management at the Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology.
Monday, November 29, 2021 - 08:51
Prof, Charles Gachene of the University of Nairobi’s LARMAT Department was one of the invited participants in the “High-Level Dialogue on the Soils Information System” that was organized as a side
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Friday, November 26, 2021 - 10:16
Prof Charles Gachene from LARMAT on 16th and 17th November, 2021 led stakeholders meetings on supplemental Irrigated Agriculture for crop production in the agro pastoral communities of Chumvi village, Laikipia County. The objective
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:43
The Kenya Rangeland Restoration and Conservation Action Group was formed as a follow up to the Kenya National Landscape Restoration Scaling Conference held on 9th to 16th July, 2021, where it was recognised that there is a need for special attention to rangeland restoration in Kenya. The
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Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 19:14
AICAT – (Arava International Centre for Agriculture Training internship programme) – Training will take 11 months. This is an exchange programme over 50 students from UoN are
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Friday, November 19, 2021 - 11:49
DOWN2EARTH Project is a collaborative research project funded by European Union, led by the Cardiff University and includes University of Bristol, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Hohenheim, University of Nairobi, Addis Ababa University, IGAD Climate
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