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Prof Kiama, Who was formerly the principal of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences College  ascended to to the highest rank in the university of Nairobi as Vice chancellor.This was acknowledged by a virtual installation that  saw masses turn online to watch this historic event that was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic that doesn't allow social gatherings.Full details of his Inaugural address can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttx296Jr8ps&t=5s.The department of Agricultural Economics congratulates him for beating the odds and becoming the vice chancellor of the

The first case of COVID-19 was detected in Kenya in early March 2020. After the government embarked on mass testing in April, the number of daily cases rose rapidly reaching as high as 49 by May 2020. The government also came up with various mitigating measures including restricted movement, such as the dusk to dawn curfew, while allowing transportation of agricultural products during the day.

Kollie,a postgraduate student in the department has in his latest conference paper titled " Economic efficiency of Cassava production in Liberia using an output-oriented approach" been rejoicing for having his paper presented at the International (digital) Conference on Precision and Food Waste on April 28, 2020.View his conference paper in the attachment provided below. 

The Department of Agricultural Economics has once again made the entire University of Nairobi community proud.This is because ten out of the top five hundred scholars and researchers abstracted under  university of Nairobi by the SciVal perfomance ranking tool come from the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Clara Yoon - the Project Manager of Global Programs, MEDA wrote to the department of Agricultural Economics a final note for it's contributions to MEDA INNOVATE over the last few years, as they  closed out the program a few days ago.

RIE(Research Innocation & Extension) has created a Research and Innovation Blog at https://uonresearch.org/blog/ and is calling for insightful articles with a current focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This could also include recasting the key ideas in academic articles on COVID19 that are fast coming and presenting them at the level of the general reader. COVID19 pandemic is not just a health problem.

Dr. David Jakinda, an agricultural economist and a lecturer in the department of Agricultural Economics amongst other speakers was today hosting a webinar discussion on "understanding the effects of the covid -19 pandemic on food security in Kenya and globally".The webinar dug into issues on finance and food security during and after the COVID-19 pandemic to determine what steps governments can take to reduce the impact of the food crises that are bound.

Prof. John Mburu, Chairman of the Department, was excited because of the good performance of the University of Nairobi. The overall University of Nairobi was number one (1) but last year was number three (3) showing very great improvement. Joyce Waithira Kamau was the second (2) candidate who performed very well and made our Department very proud. First-year students were told to keep up the standard in the coming academic year 2020/2021.

He was her supervisor on the thesis entitled “Impact of Agricultural Training programs on Youth Agripreneurship Performance and Empowerment in Nigeria.” She worked very hard and managed to attain a degree within two years. She narrates that it was very challenging because she had to go to Nigeria, collect the data, came to Kenya to do the analysis.