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Mr. Danice Otieno AWINDA

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Staff Information
PERSONAL DETAILS
Designation
Assistant Lecturer, Environmental Science
Department
Department of Biological and Physical Sciences
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Msc

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Msc. Environmental Science

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Agriculture, Natural resource management

WORK EXPERIENCE

14 years as High school teacher, teaching agriculture, biology and chemistry

2 years serving as Deputy principal

8 years as lecturer at Kabarak University

KEY PROJECTS

Smallholder irrigation and sustainable food security in smallholder households

PhD research on climate change adaptation by smallholder farmers

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Environmental impacts of smallholder irrigation

Climate change adaptation by smallholder households for sustainable food security

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Awinda, D. O., Kitetu, J. J. and Onyando, J. (2014). Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Irrigation Water Use by Smallholder Farmers in Gem Rae Irrigation Scheme, Kenya. Kabarak Journal of Research & Innovation Vol. 2 No. 1, pp 19-44 (2014). ISSN 2305-784X (print).
2. Awinda, D. O (2018). The Socioeconomic Impacts of Irrigated Smallholder Agriculture on Sustainable Household Food Security in Kenya. Kabarak Journal of Research & Innovation Vol. 6 No. 2, pp 1-15 (2018). ISSN 2305-784X (PRINT);2410-8383 (online)
3. Awinda, D. O., Kapiyo, R., & Kitetu, J. J. (2021). Local Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Farmers: A farm level study in Homabay County, Kenya. Editon Cons. J. Econ. Dev. Stud., 3(1), 189-199. https://doi.org/10.51317/ecjeds.v3i1.203
4. Awinda, D. O., Kapiyo, R., & Kitetu, J. J. (2021). Indigenous Local Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Farmers in Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. Merit Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Soil Sciences (ISSN: 2350-2274), Vol. 9(2) pp. xxx-xxx. Available online http://meritresearchjournals.org/asss/index.htm

CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS
  1. 2013: Presented a paper at Kabarak University 2nd International Conference titled “Environmental Impacts of Smallholder Irrigation Projects in Kenya”.

2.      2020: Kabarak University International Conference on Environmental Sciences and Energy Technology. Presented a paper titled “Indigenous Local Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Farmers in Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya”.

TEACHING AREAS

Environmental Science at undergraduate level

MEMBERSHIP / ASSOCIATION

Member of Environmental Institute of Kenya, Lead Expert, Environmental impact assessment and audit- Reg. No. 8657

Our Moral Code

As members of Kabarak University family, we purpose at all times and in all places, to set apart in one’s heart, Jesus as Lord. (1 Peter 3:15)