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.
DAAD Agriculture-Alumni Training Network is organizing a one-week workshop in Kenya. The theme for this year’s workshop is ‘Paradigm shifts in Agricultural Systems towards Sustainable Land-use in Africa’. This initiative will bring together German university alumni from East Africa for a 6-day travelling workshop in Kenya from the 28th March to 2nd April, 2022.
Community resource mapping is not a new approach for engaging the resource users in identification and characterization of natural resources for the purpose of informing management decisions. The product is a visually prepared mental map showing spatial and temporal distribution of resources and their status.
Prossopis juliflora is a famous plant for the wrong things; all we hear about it is its invasiveness, leading to loss of pasture, septic wounds caused by the thorns on animals and humans, among other environmental ills. This has been the basis of the efforts towards eradicating it from the African arid and semi-arid rangelands where it has colonized thousands of hectares of land.
There is a very good reason to Focus on the Process that Creates the Results. In view of this, training of enumerators is critical for data quality assurance. It is important to ensure that all members of the field team are familiar with the survey purpose, design and protocol. Training provides enumerators with a clear overview of the context, objectives, and relevance of the impact of the survey results.
On Friday 11th February, 2022, 6 students presented their research progress to their supervisors, fellow students and other members of staff. Among those presented students pursuing postgraduate degrees in,
Walter successfully defended his MSC thesis titled: “Analysis of Urban and Peri-Urban Pastoral Herd Composition, Land-Use Changes, and Drivers of Pastoralism in Nairobi City” during a virtual oral examination convened by the Faculty of Agriculture on February 02, 2022. Wafula was registered in the Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), and his thesis work has been supervised by Dr.
A research team from the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam visited the Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology & Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Nairobi on February 7, 2022. The team comprising Associate Prof. Anne Van Loon and her PhD students; Rhoda Odongo, Ileen Streefkerk, and Tim Busker was received by Dr. Oliver Wasonga (lead researcher for Down2Earth at UoN).
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.
