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A team from the University of Idaho, United States of America, led by Prof. Dakota Roberson, working with a group of American innovators on agricultural and energy development projects in East Equitoria and South Sudan, visited the faculty of agriculture to learn more about agricultural programs and current projects in the faculty. They were keen to establish future collaborations after visiting the region in March. They have established a strong network of supporters to facilitate ongoing construction and training at the farm.

The deadline for submission of papers for the Nairobi Innovation Week has been extended to 19th March 2024.

The goal of the Hackathon is to prepare students to be job creators instead of job seekers. The top three winning ideas from each of the Faculties Hackathons will get a chance to participate in the final Nairobi Innovation Week competition in 2024.

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Kick-off workshop of a new project in Kenya that will improve our school feeding programmes - “Empowering Tomorrow's Food Security Leaders: Strengthening Higher Education Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems in Kenya and Mozambique’’ (Food Leader Project) a collaboration between Finland, Kenya and Mozambique aimed at enhancing the capacity of the institutions in educating future experts who can provide strategic leadership to enhance food safety and nutrition security officiated by our DVC RIE UoN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE2-61HgMXw

The ‘Great Millet Quest’ a collaborative initiative between UoN, Unilever and Farm to Market Alliance, World Food Programme. UoN young student innovators will be developing millet products for the market. Strengthening Academia-industry linkage is a key strategy to addressing food and nutrition security and ensure sustainable agriculture

The University of Nairobi, Unilever and Farm to Market Alliance launched the ‘Great Millet Quest’ on Friday 26th January at Upper Kabete Campus. The competition seeks to bring out innovative and sustainable products from millet. The best competition targets students from the Faculty and the winner will walk away with 500,000 Shillings.

Feed the future innovation lab for food safety by USAID - presenting on poultry value chain. Women and youth pay a vital role in the poultry value chain - interventions targeting reduction of Salmonella and Campylobacter pathogens should actively engage them and consider roles of gender in this value chains. Annual meeting in Cambodia 13-17 th November 2023

A visit to the Faculty of Agriculture University of Nairobi by a team from Yunnan Agricultural University, China.

Join us on 25 th and 26 th October 2023 for the Agro Conference, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi. Amazing esteemed speakers and priority topics in agriculture and food security loading… you don’t want to miss this event…

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