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Climate-Smart agriculture and potato production in Kenya: review of the determinants of practice

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) presents the opportunity to meet the worldâ€™s increasing foodClimate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) presents the opportunity to meet the worldâ€™s increasing fooddemands in...

Egerton University and ICRISAT in collaboration with counties to improve drought tolerant crops productivity and nutrition and Health in Drylands of Kenya

Egerton University and ICRISAT have been engaged in improving production and productivty enhancement of dryland crops mainly sorghum, millets, groundnuts and greengrams in six counties dryland...

Egerton University Host Leadership and Entrepreneurship Trainings in a Joint Orientation of Newly Recruited TAGDev Supported Students

Egerton University, Kenya, in partnership with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and Gulu University in Uganda, through the support from MasterCard...

AgriSCALE Project Short Video

AgriSCALE is a joint project for building higher education capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the fields of bioeconomy and agriculture. Through curricula reforms, education will be more...

CESAAM Feed Formulation Course Programme

Course objective: To equip participants on the theoretical and practical aspects of livestock feed production, feed processing, feed formulation and quality control. It will enable practitioners...

Egerton University appoints New Director for Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development

Egerton University Council appointed Professor Gideon Obare as the Director of T egemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development effective 1 August 2021 for three years. Prof. Obare is a...

Production and Marketing of African Indigenous Leafy Vegetables

Training Manual for Extension Officers and Practitioners...

Students Led Environmental Project

Egerton Engineering Students Association (EESA) in collaboration with Egerton University Students Association (EUSA) on Friday installed a dustbin in the school compound made out of recycled...

Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development approves book authored by the Chairman of Council

Egerton University’s Chairman of Council Amb. Dr Luka Hukka Wario made some strides in August 2021 when a Grade Six for the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) book he co-wrote with other authors...

Egerton University lecturer writes a book on COVID-19

Egerton University lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr Ombeva Malande and other health workers who recovered from COVID-19 have written a book titled: SURVIVING COVID-19: Experiencing God’s...

Teaching Organic Chia seeds farming in Kenya

‘Simulation on Wheels’: A Capacity Building Project to Improve Maternal, Neonatal and Basic Trauma Management in Rural Health Facilities in Nakuru County, Kenya

The ‘SIM on Wheels’ is a mobile unit for simulation-based training of medical teams that employs advanced simulation-based training modalities that enable health care providers to effectively...

Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Network (ALL-IN) Research Grant

August 29, 2021—High soil acidity contributes to low and stagnant agricultural productivity. This is particularly true for maize, which is the country’s main staple crop....

Egerton University staff and students participate in a tree planting event at Main Campus in Njoro

To promote environmental conservation, Egerton University staff, students and the community, on Saturday 31 July 2021, held a tree planting event at the University's Water Dam site next to...

Training on Leadership and Governance organised by CESAAM

Egerton University’s Management Board (UMB) during a Training on Leadership and Governance organised by Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness Management (CESAAM) in...

Egerton Launches Queen Bee Rearing Technology

Egerton University, through the support of the University Council, has launched a Bee Research and Demonstration Unit (BRDU) at the Agro-Science Park and the Dryland Research Training and Ecotourism...

DRTEC Enhances Biodiversity Conservation in the Lake Bogoria Landscape

DRTEC's role in transforming lives through extension and community community engagement has not been easy during this Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the planned activities had to be cancelled or scaled...

Council and UMB Visit Chemeron DRTEC

On 21 May 2021, the Dryland Research Training and Ecotourism Centre (DRTEC) hosted the Egerton University Council and the University Management Board (UMB)....

Egerton Annual Research Conference Goes Virtual

The Division of Research and Extension's core functions include coordination and development of relevant policy documents in the following core areas: research, extension services, consultancy...

Institute Unites Kenya and China through Wide-Ranging Scholarly Collaborations

The Confucius Institute (CI) at Egerton University was set up with the joint efforts of Egerton University in Kenya and Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) in China....

TAGDev Trains a New Generation of Agleaders

Egerton University, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), and Gulu University in Uganda are implementing a programme titled “Transforming African...

CESAAM Zeroes in on Food Security

The Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness Management (CESAAM) is funded by the World Bank in collaboration with the Kenya Government, and supports students, faculty and...

Department of Chemistry at Forefront of Fight against Covid-19 on Campus

Since the inception of the Faculty of Science 34 years ago we have always endeavoured to provide our learners with an excellent foundation in line with the institutional Vision, Mission and Core...

Egerton Scholar Awarded Multiple Grants

Prof. Patience M. Mshenga of the Faculty of Agriculture is the Principal Investigator in three award-winning projects: Strengthening Agri-Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Training in East,...

Department Builds Complex to Address Water Issues

The Department of Agricultural Engineering has been facilitating its staff members and students in a number of ways. For example, to address the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, staff members...

Safe Foods Reference Laboratory (SAF- LAB)

Egerton University set to open a Safe Foods Reference Laboratory (SAF- LAB) in Main Campus, Njoro. The SAF-Lab facility funded by the National Research Fund (NRF) at the cost of Ksh. 39 million will...

ACE II National Steering Committee visit CESAAM

ACE II National Steering Committee led by Ambassador Samson Nabukwesi is the Principal Secretary, State Department for University Education visit CESAAM at Egerton University on 31st August 2020....

Climate-Smart agriculture and potato production in Kenya: review of the determinants of practice

Climate-Smart agriculture and potato production in Kenya: review of the determinants of practice

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) presents the opportunity to meet the worldâ€™s increasing foodClimate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) presents

19 November 2021

Egerton University and ICRISAT in collaboration with counties to improve drought tolerant crops productivity and nutrition and Health in Drylands of Kenya

Egerton University and ICRISAT have been engaged in improving production and productivty enhancement of dryland

16 November 2021

Egerton University Host Leadership and Entrepreneurship Trainings in a Joint Orientation of Newly Recruited TAGDev Supported Students

Egerton University Host Leadership and Entrepreneurship Trainings in a Joint Orientation of Newly Recruited TAGDev Supported Students

Egerton University, Kenya, in partnership with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture

26 October 2021

AgriSCALE Project Short Video

AgriSCALE is a joint project for building higher education capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the

19 October 2021

CESAAM Feed Formulation Course Programme

Course objective: To equip participants on the theoretical and practical aspects of livestock feed production, feed

27 September 2021

Egerton University appoints New Director for Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development

Egerton University appoints New Director for Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development

Egerton University Council appointed Professor Gideon Obare as the Director of Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural

23 September 2021

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