Peter Okoth Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

I am currently managing Oakfarm Training Institute. Oakfarm is an educational institute that is designed with modernity in mind that adds much needed value to the foundational knowledge normally offered in everyday school or at the university. We have designed agile and comprehensive online courses that empowers the learner to prepare themselves for self employment as well as creating dynamic business innovations and startups. Our course in Automotive Design empowers the learner to learn the elements of a vehicle, their operations, designing a vehicle from scratch till production. The courses offered at Oakfarm target learners interested in retooling themselves for newer opportunities and self employment and creating jobs for other job-seekers. I am happy to announce that Oakfarm Training Institute has been admitted into FasterCapital's LaunchUp incubation programme. FasterCapital is also now an Investor in Oakfarm Training Institute.

Nairobi, Kenya

We are at the frontiers of new agriculture and agribusiness innovations in Kenya and the continent of Africa. Apart from pioneering new agricultural innovations, we also offer mentor-ship to completing university graduates to catapult them to top level performers in several knowledge sectors including: ICT, telecommunication engineering, software engineering, agronomy, weather data systems, payment gateways, etc. We offer support training in projects formulations, monitoring and evaluation and priority setting. Our partners include: the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), GROWMATE International, Bear machines West Africa Ltd., Syndic Consulting LLP, the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations (IAEA), 16 national research organizations in Africa including: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cote d' Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc.).

Fibrelink Communications Ltd, Nairobi

Currently managing and running an innovative irrigation services. The Smart Irrigator at www.smartirrigator.com

I was responsible for project information management including web authoring, updating and hosting, PR functions of the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below Ground Biodiversity a project implemented in Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico and Uganda and was also assisting in the Project Coordination. As Principle Investigator, I was resposible for Coordinating the participation of National partners in the AfSIS project (A project that is involved in the digital mapping of the soils of Africa), overall capacity building in the project, serving the end users, leading socio-economic and agronomic surveys as well as articulating policy on soil fertility, farmers circumstances and agronomic management as well as conduting soil fertility research.

Conduted research in soil pedology, carried out soil surveys and land evaluation and eventually mapped them digitally in a GIS. Also made fertilizer recommendation for different soils based on their soil characteristics and results obtained from the fertilizer recommendation project (FURP), that was supported by the GTZ.

Phd In Production Ecology And Resource Conservation, Spatial Erosion Modelling And Geographic Information Science

Soil Survey & Aerial Photography, Pedology, Remote Sensing & Soil Surveys

Geology Majors, Bachelor Of Science In Geology