Maseno University Research team meets with Kisumu County Governor, Prof. Peter Anyang' Nyongo to give a brief on an upcoming project: "Potentials of Agro-Ecological Practices in East Africa ".

Maseno University research team (Dr. Benjamin Ombok, Dr. Erick Ogello, Prof. Harun Ogindo, Dr. Fredrick Aila, and Dr. Erick Oteyo) joined the Kisumu County team (CEC Agriculture, Chief Officer-Fisheries and Director-Fisheries) to update the Governor of Kisumu County, Prof. Peter Anyang' Nyongo on the upcoming EU-funded Farm2Fork project titled ‘Potentials of Agro-Ecological Practices in East Africa With a Focus on Circular Water-Energy-Nutrient Systems (PrAEctiCe) on 5th October, 2022. Maseno University is partnering with Kisumu County among other 14 institutions around the world to implement the PrAEctiCe project, which aims at providing a novel Agro-Ecology indicator set for East Africa, to help smallholder farmers in their agro-ecological transition.

The project goes beyond the existing indicator frameworks by putting the “concept into action” with a decision support tool for Agro-Ecology advisors supporting the selection of the best suited combination of agro-ecological farming practices in a local context. In addition, PrAEctiCe will put a strong focus on circular water-energy-nutrient systems of integrated aqua-agriculture, an agro-ecological practice with high potential for efficient farming with minimal climate impacts, which has not been sufficiently explored in previous indicator works. The 4-year project will be hosted at the departments of Animal and Fisheries Sciences and Crop and Soil Sciences in Maseno University, and Kisumu County’s VicinAqua site, Nyalenda.