climate change

SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT LIVESTOCK TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr. Oscar Koech and Dr. Oliver Wasonga from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) participated in a workshop organized by IGAD Center for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) with financial support from the World Bank Group.

INTEGRATED SOIL–CROPPING–LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr. Oscar Koech from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) participated in a workshop organized by the Department of Technical Cooperation, International Atomic Energy Agency. The workshop purpose was to introduce the current status of Integrated Soil Cropping Livestock Production System and to update the project work plan.

TRAINING ON SUSTAINABLE WOOD FUEL ENERGY USE TO SAVE ON TREES AND ADAPT PASTORAL COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN SAMBURU COUNTY

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.

LARMAT STUDENT FEATURED ON NATION LEADERSHIP FORUM AS PANELIST

Mr.  Julius Mbatia Karanja ( LARMAT alumni 2017)  on 28th October, 2021 was a panelist in the Nation Leadership forum on COP 26 on “Road to Glasgows- Together for our planet” . HE is an Environmentalist young climate Policy and advocacy expert and former student in BSC Management of Agro-Ecosystems and Environment in this department.

UON PARTICIPATES IN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL COURSE (IVC), 2021

Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi (UoN) in collaboration with Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland, Universidade Federal de Grande Dourados (UFGD), Brazil; and University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore (UASB), India offers “TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH GLOBAL LEARNING” (IVC) 2021.

OUR ALUMNI IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE; NATURE -BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) invites you to a virtual forum on Nature based on climate change to be held on Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 3pm to 5pm. Register here for Green House Session 2.0 on "Nature based Solutions (Nbs) for Climate Change” and if they are effective in addressing causes and consequences of climate c

GENDER ROLES AND CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG THE PASTORALISTS

Pastoral leaders, elders and representatives of Samburu and Boran communities(Deedha) from Isiolo county between Monday  12th- Tuesday 13th April , 2021 were trained on Leadership and governance which entailed Gender role in pastoral communities, inclusiveness in Decision making and their participatory in implementation of climate change projects/ programmes  in their grassroots .

3-4 YEAR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN PASET-RSIF AT AFRICAN UNIVERSITY DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22ND JUNE 2020

The Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) is an African-led initiative with the goal of strengthening skills in the Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology to further socio-economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) is the flagship program of PASET. RSIF focuses on transformative technologies that have a far-reaching positive impact on society.

LARMAT TO HOST "Down2Earth" PROJECT TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA

Down2earth project Aims to help rural East African communities adapt to climate change using state-of-the-art predictions of water scarcity and food insecurity. 

A major component of DOWN2EARTH involves improving the accuracy of forecasting climate variability in critical rainy seasons and assessing its impact on the total amount of water stored in soils for agriculture and deeper underground for drinking water supplies.