Welcome to the Africa Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness Management (CESAAM) at Egerton University (Kenya).Food insecurity and poverty remains the major challenge to Africa’s development, affecting about 33% of its population. One key approach in addressing Africa’s food insecurity is to build capacity and innovative research along the agricultural value chains. CESAAM is funded by World Bank modeled to address the above issues. The Center is also situated in the region with countries that are either in conflict or emerging from conflict, such as South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi.
TAGDev 2.0 is a collaborative between RUFORUM, Mastercard Foundation, the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and life Sciences (GCHERA) and 12 African universities namely Egerton University (Kenya),among others.The main goal is to strengthen universities and TVET institutions to better serve communities by skilling and empowering Africa’s young people and their institutions to drive inclusive, equitable and climate resilient transformative agriculture and agrifood systems.
CoELIB empowers entrepreneurs, researchers, and change-makers across Africa by turning ideas into impactful, scalable solutions. Through incubation, leadership development, research commercialization, and strategic communication, CoELIB fuels sustainable economic growth and transformation.
BREEDTECH Project, formally titled “Building Capacity in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Education and Research through Partnerships in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe for Agricultural Transformation,” is a three-year, cross-regional project funded by Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education (CBHE). This project unites higher education institutions and a private firm from Kenya, Ethiopia, Palestine, Italy, Sweden, and Serbia.
The Faculty of Law Legal Aid Project is funded by UNDP-Amkeni Wakenya with an objective to facilitate enhanced access to justice by the marginalized and the poor in Nakuru County and to build a sustained and structured legal aid service within Nakuru County. The project aims to address the challenge of violation of human rights for the marginalized and poor groups of people living within Nakuru County beginning with select sub counties .
The Centre is located in Field 7 and 17 at Egerton University.The CaWSA- Centre showcases various water conservation, storage, abstraction and distribution systems and soil and moisture conservation technologies, innovations and management practices (TIMPS).The Centre is used for farmer and student training and community action research.
The Centre for Integrated Water and Basin management (CIWAB) was established in 2017 as knowledge exchange centre under the Division of Research and Extension, Egerton University and affiliated to the department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology. It was supported by The Netherlands Embassy through The Mau Mara Serengeti Project (MaMaSe) (2014-2017).