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19 December 2017
Nanyuki – A three-day training targeting veterinary professionals and para-professionals from Kenya’s Samburu, Laikipia, Meru, Isiolo, Baringo and Elgeyo Marakwet counties and the Regional Veterinary Investigation Laboratories - Karatina and Eldoret has wrapped up. The aim of the training was to build the capacity of sub-national level veterinary officers to...
Nanyuki – A three-day training targeting veterinary professionals and para-professionals from Kenya’s Samburu, Laikipia, Meru, Isiolo, Baringo and Elgeyo Marakwet counties and the Regional Veterinary Investigation Laboratories - Karatina and Eldoret has wrapped up. The aim of the training was to build the capacity of sub-national level veterinary officers to...
07 December 2017
Nairobi - The animal disease surveillance capacity evaluation in Kenya has been concluded after an eleven day process aimed at improving local capacities in detection, prevention and response of animal diseases or threats, including zoonoses (diseases which can be transmitted between animals and humans). The objective was to conduct an external...
Nairobi - The animal disease surveillance capacity evaluation in Kenya has been concluded after an eleven day process aimed at improving local capacities in detection, prevention and response of animal diseases or threats, including zoonoses (diseases which can be transmitted between animals and humans). The objective was to conduct an external...
17 November 2017
Kapsabet - With the current maize harvesting activities and the ongoing heavy rainfall in the grain basket counties, the risk of aflatoxin contamination and exposure to the population is now real than ever before. Prevention measures must be taken now as a matter of priority. Fifty-three (53) officers from the Ministries...
Kapsabet - With the current maize harvesting activities and the ongoing heavy rainfall in the grain basket counties, the risk of aflatoxin contamination and exposure to the population is now real than ever before. Prevention measures must be taken now as a matter of priority. Fifty-three (53) officers from the Ministries...
14 November 2017
Nairobi – Boosting fall armyworm detection and control through FAO’s Technical Support. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Kenya through a Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) have introduced standardized and farmer-friendly fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) control traps which will be used in at least eighty...
Nairobi – Boosting fall armyworm detection and control through FAO’s Technical Support. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Kenya through a Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) have introduced standardized and farmer-friendly fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) control traps which will be used in at least eighty...
14 October 2017
Buenos Aires - Kenya has scooped this year’s International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS) Success Story Award 2017, for the successful implementation of food composition activities in Kenya. With the great strides that the country has made towards the review of this national document that shows the nutrient values...
Buenos Aires - Kenya has scooped this year’s International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS) Success Story Award 2017, for the successful implementation of food composition activities in Kenya. With the great strides that the country has made towards the review of this national document that shows the nutrient values...
