This archive report was first published on 10 January 2020.
January 9, 2018, marked a significant milestone for the Legume Centre of Excellence for Food and Nutrition Security (LCEFoNS) as the Joint Steering Committee paid a courtesy call to JKUAT Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Victoria Wambui Ngumi. The committee, led by Prof. Marc Hendrickx (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Prof. Daniel Sila (JKUAT, Kenya), expressed their admiration for the project's progress and the collaborative nature of the post-graduate students involved.
Prof. Hendrickx stated, 'I am confident with the competence level of the 7 PhD students and upon completion of their studies, the project will accord them infrastructural support to enhance their research work.'
Prof. Ngumi commended the project's work and encouraged the team to produce tangible research outputs and innovations that can be scaled down to the community, emphasizing the need for these outputs to improve the nutritional and health status of the country, as well as the economic status of legume farmers.
The LCEFoNS project, funded to the tune of Euros 3735,000.00 (Sh410 million), is a twelve-year research initiative under VLIR-UOS that brings together JKUAT and Belgian partners (Katholic University Leuven and Vrije University of Brussels). The project comprises four interrelated research projects, focusing on legume production and management practices, storage and processing, the impact of whole legumes on nutrition and health, and the use of ICT in legumes.
