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THE MAIN THEME BEING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FOOD SYSTEMS AND EFFECTS ON FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY. WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES DURING AND POST THE PANDEMIC? WITH REFERRENCE TO PROCESSING OF QUAVA FROM KENYAN CALTIVARS REDUCING POST HARVEST LOSSES

This episode of Shamba Shape Up features the Zero Energy Brick Cooler (ZEBC), one of the technologies installed at the newly established 'Innovative Cold Storage Technologies: Research, Training and Demonstration Unit' at the field station of the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. This unit has been established with support from the National Research Fund (NRF-Kenya).

As a department our students are holding online learning and this has also stretched out to the postgraduate students who have their thesis ready for defence. Therefore the students who have completed their corrections should forward their names, title of the thesis and supervisors names to be scheduled for an online defence. Get in touch with the Dean's office Faculty of Agriculture online. This will enable the department to plan for the upcoming graduation in September. 

Coffee is one of the major industrial crops produced in Kenya. It is the fifth largest foreign exchange earner after tourism, tea, horticulture and diaspora remittances. Coffee is the mainstay of about 800,000 households mostly rural. In the 70s and 80s, coffee was regarded as the ‘black gold’ because it raked in millions of shillings for the farmers. Kenya was then top player in the global market and the high-quality coffee from Kenya was highly sought after to blend coffees from other countries.