For generations, the Ogiek tribe in Kenya’s Rift Valley has inhabited the Mau Fores in the Njoro River watershed, relying on the river flowing through the valley and surrounding forest for food and shelter. In recent years however, the tribe’s traditional way of life was forced to change as a result of a growing human population and overfarming in the valley. The tribe was no longer able to live in the forest and was forced to subsist on a river that had become stagnant and hazardously polluted. (...)

Free access to peer-reviewed scientific journals has greatly improved the quality of research and teachings in universities and research institutions in the developing world according to Wilkista Nyaora Moturi, Head of the Environment Studies Department at Egerton University, one of Kenya’s seven public universities. (...)

Developing new crop technologies:

In the Koibatek and Bomet districts of Kenya, a new crop technology is being developed jointly by farmers and researchers. From its preliminary results it could hold the key to unlocking the great farming potential in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya. (...)

Improving people’s lives:

Uganda, which lies in the Sub-Saharan region in Africa, was one of the hardest hit countries by the HIV/AIDS scourge in the 1980s, wiping out entire villages in certain parts of the country. (...)