Beyond the landscape restoration field, benefits of trees also range from improving air quality, to protect biodiversity, tackle climate changes and improve people’s health, as well as providing several sources of income: from wood, cuttings to Non Timber Forest Products, such as nuts, fruits or extracts.
College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences staff led by the Principal CAVS, Prof Rose Nyikal on Friday, 6th November, 2020 was virtually trained on utilization of grant expenditure Authorization to Incur Expenditure (AIE). AIE is a tool used by the University of Nairobi in processing Grants transactions.
Dr.SM Mureithi of Department of LARMAT, University of Nairobi accompanied by the Country Director of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse) ,(Kenya and Somalia) and Eric Rosana of VSF-Suisse Kenya are on a four day (from 2nd November, 2020) scoping mission in Samburu County in preparation for the start of implementating the “Building Drought Resilience in Samburu Through Sustainable Rangelands Management (DR-SRM) Project.
Face to face, Teaching & Learning will resume on 9th November 2020 for 1st Years in College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) College of Architecture and Engineering (CAE), College of Biological and Physical Sciences (CBPS), College of Education & External Studies (CEES)-Kenya Science Campus & College of Health Sciences (CHS).
To all fresher’s, welcome to College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS). The college constitutes of Faculty of Vet medicine, Faculty of Agriculture and The Wangari Mathai Institute for Peace and Environmental studies (WMI). Get a glimpse of the College via video addressed by the College Principal, Deans of Faculties and Director WMI. Download orientation link here.
On 31st August 2020 marks your first step in a higher learning institution. We welcome you at this prestigious University. Unlike other registration and mode of teaching delivery process, due to Covid-19 Pandemic period, teaching will be conducted virtually. We encourage everyone to embrace technology. Have your learning gadgets and accessories ready not to miss any class.
The Chairman, LARMAT, Prof. Geofrey Kironchi assisted by Ms Carolyne Kyalo today 11th August 2020 Successfully defended 2019-2020 performance contract (PC) of the department via Google zoom. This rates department performance that fall under four key pillars set by the University of Nairobi. These are; Financial Stewardship and Discipline, Service Delivery, University Core Mandate (projects “Big Four” Initiatives, Projects/Programmes aligned to SDGs, SPS and SP) and other crosscutting issues within growth of the varsity.
Prof. M.Nyangito, an associate professor in the department of Land Resources Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) has been appointment as Acting Dean; Faculty of Agriculture with effect from 4th August 2020. Prof. Nyangito has held various managerial/ administrative positionswithin University of Nairobi.
Kenya holds third position after South Africa and Egypt in Africa eminent for Higher learning education. This was after webometric ranking of July 2020, which positioned The University of Nairobi at no 10 in Africa and no 1 in East Africa.
The University of Nairobi(UoN) is ranked the seventh preeminent University out of 200 Universities in Africa. This is according to 2020 African University ranking conducted by uniRank. Three key selection criteria to the ranking of Higher learning institutions was based on;
