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Research Organisations - Kenya (77)

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• Africa Academy Of Sciences (AAS) - Nairobi

• African Academy of Sciences (AAS) - Nairobi

• African Economic Research Consortuim (AERC) - Nairobi

• African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) - Nairobi

  The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives. AMREF defines the disadvantaged as people who suffer from high prevalence and severe impact of major health problems like malaria, HIV/AIDS, poor water and sanitation, lack of information about adolescent and reproductive health, and poor access to health care.

• African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) - Nairobi

  The African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) is a network of 127 African colleges and universities in Africa that teach agriculture and natural resources education. The objective of the network is to strengthen integrative approaches to teaching and learning, with a focus on multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The main activities of ANAFE include curriculum reviews and development, writing of locally contextualized learning materials derived from recent research, training of trainers, managing postgraduate fellowships (an average of 40 awarded each year) and an overall monitoring of agricultural capacity on the continent. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi. This provides a vantage for network management, linkages with the research and development activities of the CGIAR system and partners.

• Agricultural Research Foundation (AGREF) - Nairobi

• Agricultural Research Foundation (AGREF) - Nairobi

• Agricultural Society of Kenya - Nairobi

• Baraka Agricultural College - Molo

• Bukura Agricultural College (BAC) - Bukura

• CABI Africa Regional Centre (CABI Africa) - Nairobi

  CABI Africa Regional Centre supports CABI's activities in Africa, where the development challenges are tougher than anywhere in the world. But national capacity to address the issues is growing. There is no place for international organisations that stifle such growth. Accordingly, CABI's role is to support and supplement, drawing on its global experience, and sometimes where there is a need, to take the lead in developing new opportunities and technologies. CABI-ARC focuses its activities on six themes that impact on the livelihoods of the rural poor in Africa. * Rural knowledge systems * Smallholder commodity chains * Sustainable pest management * Alien invasive species * Conservation and utilisation of biodiversity * Information and communication technologies The six themes are linked and overlapping, forming a cohesive body of work.

• Centro Internacional de Majaramiento de Maiz y Trigo, Kenya - Nairobi

• Coffee Research Foundation (CRF) - Ruiru

• College of Agric and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi (UON) - Nairobi

• CORDIO East Africa - Mombasa

  Improving coastal peoples quality of life and alleviating poverty through monitoring and research of coral reef environments, and the development and promotion of sustainable livelihoods

• Departement of Zoology, Moi University (Zoo-Mu) - Eldoret

• Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi (UON) - Nairobi

• Drylands Development Centre (DDC) - Nairobi

  The Drylands Development Centre (DDC) is a centre of excellence dedicated to working with people to fight poverty in the drylands of the world. The Centre helps to influence policies and bring about lasting changes. The Centre recognizes that about one billion people depend directly upon the natural resources of the drylands for their livelihoods, and that many of them are poor and marginalized. Achieving sustainable development in the drylands has significant implications for reducing poverty and hunger worldwide. Over forty percent of the world is dry and over 2.3 billion people live there. Of the population living in dry areas approximately 1 billion are poor which accounts for close to half of the world's poor.

• EcoNews Africa - Nairobi

  EcoNews Africa (ENA) is an indigenous organisation, which was established by Non-governmental Organisations

• Egerton University - Njoro

• Egerton University (EU) - Njoro

• Egerton University, Faculty of Agriculture/Division of Research and Extension - Njoro

• Embu Agricultural Staff Training College - Embu

• Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi (UON) - Kabete - Nairobi

• Faculty of Environnement Studies, Kenyatta University (FES) - Nairobi

• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi - Kabete - Nairobi

• Farm Input Promotion Scheme (FIPS) - Nairobi

• Fisheries Department. Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Kenya - Mombassa

• Fresh Produce Exporters Asssociation of Keya (FPEAK) - Nairobi

  FPEAK is a members association, dedicated to the welfare and enhancement of members business activities, through lobbying, information and marketing support, and promotion of members compliance to International standards. As stated in its strategic Plan commissioned in 2004, one of its major objectives is the dissemination of information to enable the membership and the general horticultural community achieves high levels of proficiency, and thus enables Kenya to maintain its global status as a top horticultural producing nation. This is in light of the emerging international standards in production and food safety, occasioned by increased consumer awareness among other global concerns. Hortifair Kenya is thus perhaps the most important tool with which FPEAK executes this objective.

• Insect Resistance Maize for Africa (IRMA) - Nairobi

• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, IPAR, Kenya (IPAR) - Nairobi

  IPAR's vision is to become a national center of excellence offering constructive policy ideas to the government of Kenya and its development partners in order to increase welfare. The mission of the institute is to strengthen the national capacity to develop, implement and evaluate public policy by undertaking independent policy analysis and research, and by sharing the results with Kenya and its development partners. IPAR also seeks to serve as a resource center by offering technical, research and informational support for national development. To these ends, it provides objective, data-based findings and articulates them at forums nationally and elsewhere for the benefit of interested parties, including the government, NGOs, the private sector and the donor community. Through its competitive internship program, the institute has become a major contributor to capacity building for young professionals seeking career development in policy research and analysis within government, private organizations and other institutions.

• International & Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) - Nairobi

• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) - Nairobi

  The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) is a tropical organisation with a tropical agenda. But why study insects? Because in the tropics, insects are a fact of life to be reckoned with. Insects pose a greater risk to food production, often causing the loss of entire crops and destroying about half of all harvested food in storage.

• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Nairobi (ICRISAT-Nairobi) - Nairobi

• International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) - Nairobi

  The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve the well-being of people in developing countries by enhancing the diverse and essential contributions livestock make to smallholder farming. ILRI researchproducts are helping to solve the severe problems that hold back animal agriculture, sustainable food production and economic development in the tropics.

• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa (IPGRI-SSA) - Nairobi

  In 1991, Kenya demonstrated its support for the work of IPGRI and its predecessor IBPGR by being one of the first five countries to sign the Establishment Agreement that gave the Institute independent status. Close contacts are maintained with Kenya’s national plant genetic resources programme through the IPGRI Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa, which was established in Nairobi in 1982. Within Kenya, a large number of institutions are concerned with the conservation and use of plant genetic resources, ranging from the National Genebank of Kenya (GBK), National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and the University of Nairobi to numerous NGOs. Many of these, particularly the GBK, act as IPGRI’s partners in research programmes, and in organizing and running training courses, seminars and workshops at both national and regional levels.

• International Potato Center (CIP) - Nairobi

• International Service For The Aquisition Of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) - Nairobi

• Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology - Nairobi

• Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology (JKUAT) - Nairobi

• Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) - Nairobi

  Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) is a private sector firm launched in 1997 to facilitate linkage between sellers and buyers of agricultural commodities, provide relevant and timely marketing information and intelligence, provide a transparent and competitive market price discovery mechanism and harness and apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) for rural value addition and empowerment.

• Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) - Nairobi

  The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) is a premier national institution bringing together research programmes in food crops, horticultural and industrial crops, livestock and range management, land and water management, and socio-economics. KARI promotes sound agricultural research, technology generation and dissemination tre food security through improved productivity and environmental conservation.

• Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Embu - Embu

• Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kisii - Kisii

• Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Striga Research Station - Kisumu

• Kenya Forestry College - Londiani

• Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) - Nairobi

• Kenya Gatsby Charitable Trust (KGT) - Nairobi

  We were established in 1991 to facilitate the Micro & Small Enterprise (MSE) sector in Kenya. We build on our legacy and support structure, leveraging our resources with innovation and sound implementation to create pioneering value in our work. This entails bundling services and unbundling value chains, implementing a combination of service bundles that; * Micro Financial Services * Business Development services * Technology Department and Transfer * Project Management and Consultancy

• Kenya Institute of Administration - Nairobi

• Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF) - Nairobi

• KENYA MARINE & FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KMFRI) - Mombasa

  Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) is a State Corporation in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development of the Government of Kenya. It is mandated to conduct aquatic research covering all the Kenyan waters and the corresponding riparian areas.

• Kenya Plant Health Inspection Service - Nairobi

• Kenya Plant Health Inspector Service (KEPHIS) - Nairobi

  OUR VISION The vision of the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service is to be the leading and credible regulatory agency for quality control of agricultural input and produce. OUR MISSION Our mission is to provide a dependable effective, efficient and competitive regulatory service for ensuring the quality of agricultural inputs and produce, thereby promoting sustainable agriculture.

• Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI) - Kikuyu

• Kenyatta University (KU) - Nairobi

• Kisumu Station of Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (NSRC-KARI) - Kisumu

• Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) - Nairobi

  The Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) promotes learning about capacity development. It is an informal network including analysts from bilateral and multilateral, governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organisations engaged in development cooperation (primarily DAC members). LenCD builds on the major efforts in recent years to improve our knowledge base on capacity development. This has included the organisation of International Symposia in Manila and Tokyo 2003 and 2004. LenCD was established at a meeting of the cosponsors of those events in June 2004 in Berlin and came out of a desire to provide greater form and visibility to capacity development, both as part of the DAC Network on Governance (GovNet) and beyond. (See www.capacitywhoiswho.net for further information.) Looking into the future, LenCD aims to “grow stronger roots in the south” to become a bridge to southern partners and to turn into a professional knowledge management platform.

• Maseno University - Maseno

• Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Kenya - Nairobi

  The Ministrys objectives include increasing food production, growth in agricultural employment, expansion of agricultural exports, resources conservation and poverty alleviation. Most of the food requirements must be met from domestic supplies. The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for mapping out the strategy on which to maintain broad self-sufficiency in basic food stuffs. At the same time export earnings are to be expanded by promoting coffee, tea, horticultural products and other high value crops by increasing yields per acre. The Ministry, in consultation with other relevant ministries, established policies that enable markets for inputs and products to function efficiently. It provides the necessary marketing information for both producers and consumers.

• Moi University, Kenya (MU) - Eldoret

  Moi University was established in 1984 by an Act of Parliament as the second Public University in Kenya. Moi University offers its academic programmes through Schools. Currently, there are 13 Schools. These are headed by Deans of Schools. Teaching and Research is carried out in the respective disciplines. The University offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees, as well as Postgraduate Diploma Programmes, to students from Kenya and other Foreign countries. SCHOOLS School of Agriculture and Biotechnology School of Economics and Business Management School of Education School of Information Sciences School of Engineering School of Science School of Natural Resources Management School of Medicine School of Public Health School of Law School of Environmental Studies School of Arts and Social Sciences School of Human Resource Development .

• National Research Center - Mwea Tebere (NFRC) - Kerugoya

• NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH CENTRE & BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTRE - Kikuyu

• Pan African START Secretariat (PASS) - Nairobi

• Real IPM Company - Timau

• Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) - Nairobi

  The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), previously known as Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS) was established in Nairobi, Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then Organization of African Unity (OAU). Its founder members are Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania and Malawi and the Government of the Republic of Kenya hosts it. It is a non-profit intergovernmental organization and currently has 14 contracting member States, namely: Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

• Sustainable Agriculture Center for Research, Extensiv & Development in Africa (Sacred Africa) - Bungoma

• Tea Research Foundation of Kenya (TRFK) - Kericho

• Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (TSBF-CIAT) - Nairobi

  TSBF-CIAT is a research programme whose main aim is to contribute to human welfare and environmental conservation in the tropics by developing adoptable and suitable soil management practices that integrate the biological, chemical and socio-economic processes that regulate soil fertility and optimize the use of organic and inorganic resources to the land users. Back cover: A farmer in his farm in West Africa.

• Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme - Nairobi

• United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) - Nairobi

  The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements UNCHS recognize the imperative need to improve the quality of human settlements, which profoundly affects the daily lives and well-being of peoples. There is a sense of great opportunity and hope that a new world can be built, in which economic development, social development and environmental protection as interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development can be realized through solidarity and cooperation within and between countries and through effective partnerships at all levels. International cooperation and universal solidarity, guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Nairobi

  UNDp´s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

• University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Faculty of Science and Technology - Eldoret

• University of Nairobi (UON) - Nairobi

• University of Nairobi, Department of Crop Science - Nairobi

• University of Nairobi, Kenya (UNBI) - Nairobi

• Urban Harvest Regional Office (Kenya) - Nairobi

  To promote and support Research and Development activities in urban and peri-urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa through collaboration between Urban Havest and IDRC.

• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) - Nairobi

  The World Agroforestry Centre is one of a network of 16 Future Harvest centres located throughout the developing world. We are an autonomous, not-for-profit research and development institution supported by an international consortium of nearly 60 different governments, private foundations, regional development banks, and the World Bank

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