NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The Natural Resource Management Program researches sustainable and integrated natural resources management technologies and innovation to ensure the use of research products that will lead to coherent, efficient, and sustainable utilization of natural resources. 

Natural resources is an activity that cuts across sectorial boundaries. A more rational, efficient, and sustainable utilization of natural resources, especially land and water resources, offers significant prospects for income generation and wealth creation required for economic growth and poverty alleviation. Unlike other programs where technological benefits can accrue over a short period, benefits from the adoption of technologies on NRM take a long to be realized while some are very labor intensive. 

To deliver the expected results, the Natural Resource Management thematic area of research focuses on five research programs out oned research programs contribute to the attainment of the five thematic areas of research results. 

• Improvement of land use planning; 

  • Improvement of soil and water conservation; 

  • Improvement of integrated soil fertility management; 

  • Improvement of irrigation, drainage, and management of problem soils; 

  • Improved adaptation and mitigation of effects of climate change. 

Objective:

To provide the focus and guiding principles for achieving client-oriented and demand-led research for development, with special emphasis on smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector. It emphasizes that integrated approaches towards tackling the poverty degradation nexus must be reversed.