The Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology at the University of Nairobi has launched a transformative academic program — the Bachelor of Science in Dryland Sustainability Science and Technology (DSST) — aimed at addressing the pressing environmental and socio-economic challenges in Kenya’s drylands and beyond.

On the 17th April 2025, students pursuing various  degree programmes with a niche in Dryland resources management, Dryland sustainability science and technology and Management  of Agro ecosystems  and  from the Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) - University of Nairobi  were exposed to  an excursion to  the Drylands Natural Resources Centre (DNRC) in Makueni County. The DNRC is a Kenyan-registered NGO, under leadership of Nicholas Syano (A PhD student at LARMAT).

UoN Community on 11th April, 2025 over 2000 planted Avocado fruit trees and Indigenous trees ' Let us preach the gospel of Environmental greening and sustainability down to our communities and not only in Nairobi,' stressed UON. Vice chancellor, Prof. Hutchinson, as she addressed staff, students and partners that had gathered for the Annual Tree Planting Ceremony.