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Fifth Institutional Colloquium Report
Introduction
The Fifth Institutional colloquium whose speaker was Dr. James K. Ndufa was held on 6th October 2022 at KEFRI headquarters’ in Bamboo room. Participation to the event was hybrid with staff at scientists at headquarters and CHERP attending physically while those from other eco-regional programmes and non KEFRI staff attended virtually. Physical participants were 43 while virtual participants were 128. The colloquium started at 10.20 am with a prayer and introduction to the program by Dr. Nyambati who invited Senior Deputy Director (SDD)- Research and Development, Dr. Jane Njuguna . The SDD welcomed the participants and wished them well in the noble knowledge sharing forum. Dr. Nyambati then invited Mr. Koech, to introduce the speaker. Mr. Koech, read through the speakers profile and invited him to make his presentation. Presentation Title: Integration of trees in forest and land restoration initiatives: Lessons learnt and challenges from different landscapes in KenyaSpeaker:Dr. James K. Ndufa, Deputy Director, Forest Biodiversity and Environmental Management, KEFRI.
Speaker Profile:View it here
The presentation
He started the presentation by showing how forested landscapes in Kenya look great from outside but inside has been degradated. He said that forest degradation has threatenened livelihoods of millions of people given that in kenya 21.6 % of land is degraded. Hectares of forestland have been converted to other uses or lost through natural causes.The country therefore must rehabilitate 5.1 ha of approximately potential 38. 8 million ha by 2030.He mentioned that Kenya landscape include forest, westlands, coast rangelands and agricultural lands. He also mentioned the differences between forest and land degradation. He explained forest as increasing the number of health trees in the area while land degradation is deterioration in the quality of land, its top soil, vegetation and water sources.In kenya, land degradation Neutrality Initiative has been started whose purpose is to reverse land degradation and increase forest cover to atleast 10% and 30% tree cover by 2050.He added that these landscapes experience degradation caused by over-exploitation, dry conditions, (prolonged drought), infrastructural and industrial development, population increase, climate change, poverty, forest and woodland degradation, overgrazing, natural calamities such as forest fires, pest and diseases and landslides.
He further discussed ways of restoration of deteriorated landscapes will include integration of multiple use of various technologies – conserving valuable tree species, application of drones to rehabilitate fragile ecosystems, rotational system, increase in use of intercropping for soil fertility, seguential system, growing drought resistant treess and crops, integrating fruit trees and others with potential to absorb carbon, water harvesting, control of grazing and invasive species,planting bamboo and grass on mining sides.
He mentioned the impact of deforestation as affect climate change, pests and diseases incidence increases, water cycle, affects people livelihoods and it increases weed invasion.
The presentation attracted a lot of questions that the KM team will compile and forward to the presenter for responding to them in writing then share the responses via KM system
Questions and Answer Session
Q1..How to restore drylands? A1.Government to put up management plans on how to recover those areas. Restoration strategies to be put in place. Reduction of livestock. Q2.Charcoal is leading cause of land degradation. On the other hand low income earners depend on charcoal burning for a living.How can these two going to be merged? A2.- Government to introduce fast growing species
- Government to facilitate farmers farmers in tree plantation
- Use of technology for energy supplement.
- Government to allows to increase food security.
- GMO is good for trees so as to get trees which are resistant and fast growing.
- KEFRI has explored ways in which they can collaborate with partners to restore titanum based.
- KEFRI should use partricipatory approach that is involving all players.
Closing
the chair of the session, Dr. Nyambati thanked all participants for attending the colloquium then invited VictorKamau to make the final prayer. Next colloquium was announced to be on 4th November 2022.Registration and attendance
A total of 160 persons from 55 organizations registered to attend the colloquium virtually. Actual virtual attendance was 128 with the one who stayed longest staying for 177 minutes and the shortest for 4 minutes. Averagely the virtual participatns stayed for 96 minutes. The conversion ration (participants/registered/) was 80%. Physical attendance was low at 43 compared to other colloquiums. this accounted to 25.1% of the total attendance. most of the vitual participants were KEFRI staff comprising of 56.8% followed by University of Kabianga with 7, KFS with 6, County Government of Nyeri with 3, and KEFRI Migori and Turbo with 2 participants each. All the other organizations had only one participant.| Organization/Affiliation | No. of Participants |
| Kenya Forestry Research Institute | 91 |
| University of Kabianga | 7 |
| Kenya Forest Service | 6 |
| County Government of Nyeri | 3 |
| KEFRI - LVBERP - Migori | 2 |
| KEFRI - RVERP - Turbo | 2 |
| Arbres Biotech Ltd. | 1 |
| BIG DIG TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | 1 |
| CGN | 1 |
| CHERANGANI/EMBOBUT HILLS RESTORATION WORKING CBOS | 1 |
| Cookswell Jikos | 1 |
| d | 1 |
| Dedan kimathi university of technology | 1 |
| dsm | 1 |
| Eco-Heal Initiative | 1 |
| Eden Reforestation Projects | 1 |
| Environment Institute of Kenya | 1 |
| Graduate | 1 |
| Iced | 1 |
| ICRAF | 1 |
| Individual | 1 |
| Japan International Forestry Promotion Center | 1 |
| JICA FORESTRY PROJECT IN KENYA | 1 |
| JICA project | 1 |
| JIFPRO | 1 |
| JKUAT | 1 |
| KEFRI - DERP | 1 |
| KEFRI CHERP | 1 |
| Kilifi | 1 |
| Kltd | 1 |
| Komatsu | 1 |
| Legado | 1 |
| LVBERP | 1 |
| Magi Limited | 1 |
| Manken Geohydrotech Consultants | 1 |
| MGL | 1 |
| Murang'a University of Technology | 1 |
| NFPRP | 1 |
| NGO | 1 |
| Private | 1 |
| Radio Africa Group | 1 |
| ScienceAfrica | 1 |
| Staff | 1 |
| Tai's farm ltd | 1 |
| Tour guide at mt kulal forest | 1 |
| TREES | 1 |
| University of Eldoret | 1 |
| University of Embu | 1 |
| University of Nairobi | 1 |
| USAID | 1 |
| Water fund | 1 |
| KEFRI -NFPRP - Karura | 1 |
| KEFRI - CHERP - Nyeri | 1 |
| KEFRI - CHERP - Rumuruti | 1 |
| KEFRI - RVERP | 1 |
| Grand Total | 160 |
Submitted by VictorKamau on 07 Oct 2022
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TopicInfoForm edit
| topictitle | Fifth Institutional Colloquium Report |
| type | FieldReport |
| thematicarea | FRSS, FPD, FPI, FBEM, SPG, CS, CAQA |
| researchprogramme | CHERP, CERP, DERP, Hqs, LVBERP, NFPRP, RVERP |
| project | NA |
| author | VictorKamau, NaomyKemboi, SheilaMbiru |
| summary | presenter: Dr. James K. Ndufa, Deputy Director, Forest Biodiversity and Environmental Management, KEFRI. Title: Integration of trees in forest and land restoration initiatives: Lessons learnt and challenges from different landscapes in Kenya Date: 6th October 2022 |
| I | Attachment | Action | Size | Date | Who | Comment |
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5th KEFRI institutional colloquium attendance list.pdf | manage | 2 MB | 17 Oct 2022 - 09:42 | NaomyKemboi | attendance register |
| pdf |
Fifth KEFRI Colloquium Poster.pdf | manage | 1 MB | 07 Oct 2022 - 13:03 | VictorKamau | Fifth Colloquium Poster |
| pdf |
Speaker Profile Dr. Ndufa (6).pdf | manage | 620 K | 07 Oct 2022 - 12:58 | VictorKamau |
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