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Hands-on regional workshop on climate-smart soil management, indigenous crops, and sustainable agro-food value chains in the Lake Basin.
Kisii University aims to be a leading University through academic research and social welfare. In order to promote research welfare and engender a vibrant research culture amongst staff and students, facilitative frameworks are being formulated at the university. The frameworks are equally geared at strengthening the university’s innovation and extension function and implementing its objective of commitment to social welfare by facilitating linkage between research output and community developme
The assessment revealed that smallholder farmers in Riana Location face declining crop yields due to prolonged soil degradation, overreliance on expensive chemical fertilizers, and limited knowledge of eco-friendly pest control methods. Additionally, traditional poultry rearing practices have led to low productivity and high mortality rates.
Research and institutional collaboration between Kisii University and International Centre for Tropical Agriculture.
Small Scale Farming in Climate Smart agriculture for poverty reduction and food security in Rwanda and Kenya based on SDGs
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Post-Harvest Losses in South Western Kenya School / investigator: Kisii University and University of Minnesota Amount awarded: USD 40,000
Development and promotion of insect-based feeds to sustainably increase productivity, income, and resilience of fish farming in Kenya School / investigator: Dr.Simion Omasaki Amount awarded: USD 80,000
The IAEA, through its Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, is inviting research institutes to join the new one-year research project CRP to enhance climate resilience and improve the nutritional quality of crops such as cassava, taro, citrus and avocado. The new coordinated research project (CRP), Building Resilience to Climate Change: Enhancing Biodiversity in Annual and Perennial Crops with Nuclear Innovations, i
Dead Line 5th February, 2025. Following the launch of the Third Call for Proposals (CfP3) of the Climate Action Window (CAW) at COP 29, eligible beneficiaries are invited to apply for grant funding under the Technical Assistance (TA) Sub-window. The CAW is structured to accelerate climate action in Africa's lea st developed countries, aligning projects with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. It is divided into three sub-windows: adaptation,
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Kenya, through the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) project, has launched an open call for applications for the Direct Beneficiary Grants (DBG). The Call targets farmer organizations and community conservation groups in Nandi County engaged in farm and forest value chains with positive impact on the environment. The grants are an investment support modality to farmers focused on stre
USAID Funding 2025: Projects Dubbed Drip USAID has approved three catalytic projects totalling US $2,480,000 to stimulate the growth of Keny a’s small and medium enterprises. These grants will help strengthen the participation of Kenya ’s SMEs in financial markets and the agriculture sector. The projects dubbed 'Drip' are well aligned with USAID's core mandate of supporting private-sector development in Africa, a key strategic priority of the US
The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) invites applications for financial support from projects that aim to transform commodity value chains and uplift smallholder and SME-based enterprises in CFC member countries. The CFC provides a variety of financial and technical support options to empower SMEs, cooperatives, International Commodity Bodies (ICBs), and other institutions, particularly those led by or supporting women in agriculture. Our missio
Deadline: 15 April 2025 The World Food Prize Foundation, in collaboration with America’s Cultivation Corridor, is proud to launch the Innovate for Impact Challenge—a pioneering initiative dedicated to accelerating agricultural technology (AgTech) innovation. This Challenge seeks to identify and support early-stage, tech-driven startups whose transformative solutions address the critical challenges of global food security and sustainability. The I
Deadline: 28 February 2025 The Wilderness Trust is inviting applications for its Wilderness Impact Challenge to advance environmental protection and sustainable practices while building on Wilderness’ longstanding commitment to preserving Africa’s rich biodiversity. As they launch this new competition, they aim to foster an ongoing effort that seamlessly integrates conservation tourism with the latest thinking in innovation, technology, and entre
Soil health monitoring system. Field: Agriculture.
AI powered smart animal. Field: Agriculture.
IoT-enabled smart hermetic grain silos and predictive post-harvest temperature and moisture loss prevention platform.
Agricultural intelligence and market platform. Field: Agriculture.
High-performance computational infrastructure and geographic information systems lab supporting big data analytics, climate modeling, and satellite remote sensing.
Pilot-scale food engineering and agro-processing plant focused on extending shelf-life, value addition for bananas, avocados, and indigenous vegetables, and reducing post-harvest losses.
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) seeks to engage a qualified Consultant or Consortium of Consultants to undertake an End-Term Evaluation of thePolicy Analysis for Sustainable and Healthy Foods in African Retail Markets (PASHFARM) project. The overall objective of this consultancy is to conduct an independent, comprehensive evaluation of the PASHFARM Project’s implementation, performance, and outcomes from September 2022 to December 2025.
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology ( icipe ) /Accelerating Inclusive Green Growth through Agri-based Digital Innovations (AGriDI) seeks to engage the services of a consultant to carry out an end of project evaluation for the AGriDI project. The Evaluation includes an assessment of the outcome results and lessons learned from the implementation of the AGriDI project which will contribute to accountability, learning, decision-making and inform future design of similar projec
Scholarships and Courses: PhD Training Opportunities through the RUFORUM Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Programme [ English ][ French ]. Deadline vary by University Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) Scholarship Programme. Deadline Vary by University DAAD Scholarship in Germany 2024 [ List of Application ]. Deadline Vary by Programme SLU Doctoral and Postdoctoral positions . Deadline varies by Programme PhD and Postdoctoral at WUR. Deadline varies by Programme Humboldt Fellowship for p
Msc and PhD Scholarships in the aforementioned courses School / investigator: Kisii University Research and Extension- Scholarships tenable at the Faculty of Agriculture Amount awarded: 26 Scholarships (16 Msc and 10 PhD) (Msc- approximately KES 2,456,000, PhD KES 5,915,000)
Msc and PhD Students School / investigator: School of Agriculture and Natural resources and School of pure and Applied Sciences Amount awarded: KSH.14,818,194
Over 350 presented papers across education, natural sciences, agriculture, and humanities addressing sustainable development goals.
Precision farming technologies remain cost-prohibitive for smallholder growers. We present the design, firmware calibration, and field validation of a solar-powered capacitive soil moisture and NPK electro-conductivity probe operating over LoRaWAN.
Recommendations for county integrated development plans (CIDPs) to integrate drought-tolerant seed distribution, community grain aggregation warehouses, and micro-crop insurance subsidies.
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