I am Edward Mare Muya, an holder of MSc degree in soil and water engineering. I am currently involved in collaborative research activities, focusing mainly on the assessment of the impacts of climate change on soil quality, identification of appropriate land management technologies and monitoring their biophysical sustainability under different agro-ecosystems and management regimes. To achieve this, I am actively involved in issue-based land resources survey and characterization to identify biophysical constraints to agriculture as basis of formulating appropriate integrated and adaptive management systems in response to adverse consequences of climate change, especially in highly vulnerable areas. Within these areas, I have:
(1) studied and documented the adaptive capacity and response of people to climate change.
(2) identified an area with reasonable potential for investment in commercially irrigated agriculture including PhD research on the effects of different amendment techniques on the degraded saline-sodic soils.
(3) identified areas with reasonable potentials and opportunities for carbon credit for improved soil quality, reduced green house gas emisssion and enhanced ecosystem services.