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KALRO is now inviting interested entities and organizations working with small-holder farmers, pastoralists and fisher-folk to submit proposals to upscale and promote adoption of existing proven and climate smart technologies that have been developed by KALRO and its partners. Proposals that are innovative, need based and promote agribusiness along the value chain continuum from pre-production, production, processing, storage, trading, logistics and consump­tion have the highest chance of winning.

This  Research Topic invites high-quality papers addressing the following themes across the globe's drylands:

The University of Nairobi(UoN)  today (29th January, 2021) celebrated 2019- 2020 achievement. This is done in recognition of UoN Performance Contract (PC) led by UoN PC secretariat and governed by four (4) main Criteria’s. These are; Financial stewardship, Service Delivery, Core Mandate and other Cross cutting parameters.

Drylands Transform is a new interdisciplinary research project starting up in the Greater Karamonja border region between Uganda and Kenya. The research team –coordinated by SLU – wants to modify the ongoing negative spiral of land, livestock and livelihood degradation into a positive transformation.

Dr. Oscar Koech from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) on 16th January, 2021 conducted field visit supervision for Mr. Mustafe Ibrahim and Mohamed Jirde in Somaliland. Mr. Mustafe is a student at the UoN working in research addressing the challenges of rain water harvesting by communities to support resilient livelihoods amidst the climate change impacts.

Dr. Oscar Koech from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) on Friday, 15th , 2021 attended an inception meeting on a new upcoming project on Arid Ethno-Forestry (AEF) food systems. Dr. Koech from LARMAT and Dr. Kiemo Kiratu from school of Social sciences are the PIs from Kenya in the project.

Dr. Oscar Koech from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT)  on 14th January, 2021, participated in end of project workshop on studying the use of Mezquite to improve welfare of communities in arid and semi-arid zones of the world. This was a multidisciplinary project with partners from UK, Mexico, Tanzania and Kenya.

Meet our former students highlighting on how to apply for a winning grants for your further studies.

Have you been worried whether the exam would be held when the pandemic is still in the Kenya, at University of Nairobi, every student must be tested for their course work in the two semesters?   Learning has been online through different e- platforms and in the Department of LARMAT , postgraduate students and 1st years commenced their first semester, 2020-2021 exams yesterday, 18th January 2021.

The University of Nairobi, through C4DLab (the Innovation and Incubation Hub) and a strategic industry partner, is running a 6 month-long prestigious Research & Innovation Fellowship.