The Vice-Chancellor emphasized on the importance of the website for the wide University agenda and strategies of ensuring good performance by being committed and work hard as a team.
The College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) held a one-day curriculum review workshop for all academic units. The workshop was held on November 5, 2019, at Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies. The workshop was attended by all heads of academic units, deans, directors, curriculum review experts, quality assurance, the college principal and members of academic staff.
The College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences hosted the AGRO 2019 Conference and Exhibition during the University of Nairobi Research week, from 22nd to 24th October 2019.
The AGRO Conference and Exhibition was a platform for students, academicians, researchers and Practitioners in agriculture to show case their research outputs through presentations and posters, exchange ideas and network. The focus was on food security, climate matter and capacity development.
The supreme champion Cock in the just completed Nairobi International Trade Fair 2019 was from the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. The improved indigenous cock from Field Station farm is fed with feeds formulated within the College, ensuring high quality bird, well fed and effective in breeding for better productivity. This contributes to quality breeds for small scale farmers in support to food and nutritional security in the Country.
The official hand over of the trophies/cups won during the NITF 2019 was done on Friday 11th Oct 2019 at the College. The meeting trophies were handed over to the Principal, Professor Rose Nyikal by the Planning committee and participants during the NITF 2019. The Show committee chair, Dr. Oscar Koech thanked all the participants for their selfless sacrifice in preparation and participation to the event. The college Principal was also happy to have had the team drive the whole process with humility and much enthusiasm that made it a success.
The Nairobi International Trade Fair (NITF) was held from 30th September to October 6th 2019 at the Jamuhuri Grounds, Nairobi. The theme for the 2019 was “Promoting Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and Trade”. The college of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) participated in the event, being major partners and contributors to the efforts of increasing agricultural productivity in the country in line with vision 2030 and the big 4 agenda.
Integrating crop species with different photosynthetic pathways has great potential to increase efficiency in the use of scarce resources.
The Regional workshop for Food Security Center, University of Nairobi on “Sustainable Safe Food Systems in Africa: Moving towards a Sustainable Food Future” was held on 23rd till 26th September, 2019 at the Nelson Mandela Conference Hall in the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi.
Ecosystems exist as complex socio-ecological systems. There is constant intervention by society through management, resource use and pollution. Due to this, ecosystem management and conservation is key to Biodiversity conservation.
As the world’s most important group of pollinators, bees are a crucial part of agricultural production and natural ecosystem function. They contribute immensely to food security through pollination services; provide mankind with hive products of many economic benefits.
After the orientation exercise, all was set for learning. The first-year veterinary medicine students started off with an introduction to veterinary medicine course that serves to build their foundation into the sophisticated world of veterinary medicine.
