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Isaac Learamu |
Isaac Learamu
duties include recording data in the field identification of
forage plants, simple analysis, processing of soil and plants
samples in the lab and occasionally involved in coring in the
lake Victoria.
Before joining
ICRAF, he had an opportunity to work with scientific and
development programmes for 22 years.
He has worked as a
field assistant for MAB-FRG - Integrated Project on Arid Lands
- IPAC (UNESCO) for 4 years. During this period he
served as acting senior field assistant in charge of Nugronit
field research station, and covered a wide range of activities
including Livestock productivity studies and monitoring of
Rangeland trials.
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In 1983, he was employed by the
development of Animal
Production, University of
Nairobi to conduct a survey of
forage plants in Northern Kenya,
which included: collection and
preparation of plant samples,
enquiries about eh use of plants
for various purposes.
In
1984-1989, he worked as a research field assistant in
the Nkare-Ndare small and large ruminant programme,
which was jointly operated by German Agriculture Team
(GAT) in the Ministry of Agriculture and livestock
development and Dep. of Animal production, University of
Nairobi in Isiolo district. Thereafter he joined GTZ -
German Technical Co-operation - Marsabit Development
Programme (MDP) in a position of a public relation
officer and later to a position of field officer in
charge of Korr Community Service Centre covering a wide
range of development activities in areas of community
development sector Natural Resource Sector and livestock
development sector all in farm of organizational, social
and technical aspects within laisamis division of
marsabit district finally involved with CRSP/ILRI
conducting livestock and household surveys in log-logo
location between 1999-2000 before joining ICRAF in Jan
2001 to date.
Current
research projects: Improved Land Management in the Lake
Victoria Basin
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