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The department of LARMAT hosted a successful webinar on ‘Beef Production for Economic Growth in Africa Amidst Climate Change Impacts Experiences and Opportunities from Kenya and Bostswana on 4th October 2022; 3.00 - 5.00pm EAT. The webinar was attended by over 240 participants with representations from Kenya, Botswana, Uganda and Somalia. The webinar was a multi-stakeholders forum to discuss a very important issue in food and nutrition security in Kenya.

The Department of LARMAT in partnership with VSF-Suisse has been supporting communities’ capacity building on sustainable rangeland management under Biovision-funded Building Drought Resilience in Samburu Through Sustainable Rangelands Management (DR-SRM) project.

Through the project, County Government officials have been trained to impart sustainable rangeland management knowledge and skills to the larger pastoralist communities in Samburu County. 

Invasive species have continued to be a big threat to sustainable ecosystems management in many parts of the world. Invasions in the world have been increasing as a result globalization, population increase and increasing human activities to the environment.

Dr. Oscar Koech and Dr. Oliver Vivian Wasonga from the Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural technology, University of Nairobi have been working with pastoral communities in Samburu County on sustainable management of Prosopis juliflora as feed resource.  

A research team from the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam visited the Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology & Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Nairobi on February 7, 2022. The team comprising Associate Prof. Anne Van Loon and her PhD students; Rhoda Odongo, Ileen Streefkerk, and Tim Busker was received by Dr. Oliver Wasonga (lead researcher for Down2Earth at UoN).

Chairman LARMAT, Prof. Richard Onwonga today 6th January, 2022 participated in the UoN Vetting and Negotiation of the Departmental Performance contract(PC)  for the year 2021/2022.  In the ceremony, he endorsed the PC for the department in presence of the UON Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama, DVC Academic Affairs, Prof. Julius Ogeng’o and Dean Faculty of Agriculture, Prof. Rose Nyikal.