Lizzel Wanyama Makokha, a Master's student pursuing Master of Science in Land and Water Management at the Department of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), University of Nairobi, took centre stage representing the Homa Bay Blueprint at the just-concluded Homa Bay International Investment Conference 2024 (HoBIIC2024).

The University of Nairobi has been providing technical backstopping to VSF-Suisse under the collaborative agreement signed in August 2020. Since 2023, the Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) has been supporting VSF-Suisse under the Biovision-funded “Building drought resilience for pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in Samburu and Isiolo Counties”. Prof.