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DR.MOSES MWANGI

Dr Mwangi, who is an alumni of Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and a Visiting Fellow of the African Studies Centre Leiden in the Netherlands has backgrounds in Water Engineering and, Water Resources Management. Currently he serves as a Senior Lectur in the School of Agriculture, Environment, Water and Natural Resources (Department of Hydrology and Aquatic Sciences) at the South Eastern Kenya University. Prior to the post, he worked for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme. Dr Mwangi has been involved in various researches and, relief and development programmes in the East African region with, particular allusion to the arid and semi-arid environments. He also has particular interests in researches and innovations that aid rural people emerge out of poverty

Academic Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Post Graduate Diploma in Community Technology for Rural Development, Loughborough
University, United Kingdom
Diploma in Water Engineering The Kenya Polytechnic
Certificate in Water Engineering Ministry of Water Development Staff Training School

Selected Publications

  1. Charles K. Ndungu, Evelyn J. Mutunga, Moses Mwangi, Patrick C. Kariuki (2021) Food Insecurity Coping Strategies and Determinants of Households’ Choice of Specific Coping Strategies in Kitui County, Kenya, Journal of Food Security, 2021, Vol. 9, No. 2, 36-453
  2. Duker, Annelieke; Hago, Eyasu Yazew; Hussey, Stephen; Hulshof, Mieke; Lasage, Ralph; Mwangi, Moses and van der Zaag, Pieter (2018) Nature-Based Water Storage in Dry Rivers in Africa, The United Nations World Water Development Report,
  3. Evelyn J. Mutunga, Charles K. Ndungu, Moses Mwangi, and Patrick, C. Kariuki (2020) Modelling Determinants of Farmers’ Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Variability and Extreme Events in Kitui County, International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology, 5(6) Nov-Dec, 2020
  4. Kalungu J,, Filho WL, Mwangi, M (2013), “Responding to Food Production Challenges in the Face of Global Warming at Community Level in Kenya: The role of a local University: in Behnassi, Mohamed; Pollmann, Olaf; Kissinger, Gabrielle (Eds.) (2013), ‘Sustainable Food Security in The Era of Local and Global Environmental Change’ 2013, pp 231-241, Springer;
  5. Keziah Ngugi, Moses Mwangi (2017) Assessment of Options for Meeting Food Security in Mandera County Kenya, Developing Country Studies Journal, ISSN 2224-607X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0565 (Online) Vol.7, No.2, 2017
  6. Abel N. Mayaka , Dickson Andala , Kezia N. Ngugi , Moses Mwangi (2017) Design of an Ecosan Toilet Model for Kenyan Schools, The 3rd KESSA International and Interdisciplinary Conference, held at Multimedia University of Kenya Hotel, June 22-25, 2016 Nairobi, Kenya. Pp. 366-374. ISBN: 978-9966-1933-9-1 Abel, N. Mayaka, D. Andala, M. Mwangi and K. N. Ngugi (2018) "Improved Design of Ecosan Toilets and their Impact on the Economy and Environment in Kenya," 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC), 2018, pp. 1-6, Doi: 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629731 Mwangi, Moses (1990): ‘Water Development in Kajiado District: Personal Remarks’, in: van Klinken,
  7. M.K. and ole Seita, J. (eds.) The Future of Maasai Pastoralists (Kenya), Proceedings of a Conference held in Brachenhurst Baptist International Conference Centre Limuru, Kenya, May 28-31 1989, ASAL Programme, Kajiado, pp. 114-119.
  8. Mwangi, Moses (1991): Alternatives to Boreholes: Some Thoughts, Paper presented at the Workshop on the Kajiado District Boreholes Survey, Namanga, Kenya, March 25-26, ASAL Programme, Kajiado, Kenya
  9. Mwangi, Moses and Marcel Rutten (2012) ‘Water Innovations among the Maasai Pastoralists of Kenya: The Role of Outside ~Interventions in the Performance of Traditional Shallow Wells’ In: Jan-Bert, Andre Leliveld, and, Iva Pesa, Transforming Innovations in Africa: Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies, Pages: 257–273, African Dynamics Series, Volume II, Brill, Leiden;
  10. Mwangi, Moses and Rutten, Marcel (2012) Faces of Water Poverty in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya: Is Climate Change or Globalisation the Major Challenge? NASACKNAW Conference on “Water Management Issues in Africa” 28-31 March 2012 in Reduit, Mauritius;
  11. Mwia, Rose Catherine, Kitheka, Johnson U and Mwangi, Moses (2017) Assessment of the Effects of Deforestation on Springs: A Case Study of Nuu/Mutaitho Hills Springs in Kitui County, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 6 Issue 1, January 2017.
  12. Oruma, Samuel Kipampi, Kitheka, Johnson U and Mwangi, Moses (2017) The Study of the Effects of Mau Catchment Degradation on the Flow of the Mara River, Kenya, Journal of Environmental and Earth Science Vol.7, No 2 (2017).4
  13. Otteng, O., Wenje, P., Kiptoo, M., Anyonje, L., & Mwangi, M. (2020), Using the Health Belief Model to Identify Communication Needs in the Male Circumcision Campaigns to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Siaya County of Kenya, Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
  14. Philip K Mwendwa, Johnson U Kitheka, Mwangi, Moses, Otieno Hesbon (2019) ‘The Impacts of Water Abstraction in Tropical Rivers: A Case of South West Upper Tana Basin, Kenya’, Journal of Environment and Earth Science, ISSN 2224-3216 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0948 (Online) Vol.9, No.5, 2019
  15. Philip K Mwendwa, Johnson U Kitheka, Mwangi, Moses, Otieno, Hesbon (2019) ‘The Drivers of Water Abstraction and River Water Diversion in Tropical Rivers: A Case of South West Upper Tana Basin, Kenya’, International Journal of Hydrology, Volume 3 Issue 2 – 2019,
  16. Rutten, Marcel and Moses Mwangi (2012) ‘Mobile Cash for Nomadic Livestock Keepers: The Impact of the Mobile Phone Innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai Pastoralists’ in Gewald, Jan-Bart, Andre Leveliveld and Iva Pesa (Eds) Transforming Innovations in Africa: Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies, Brill, Leiden;
  17. Rutten, Marcel and Mwangi, Moses (2014) ‘How Natural is Natural? Seeking Conceptual Clarity over Natural Resources and Conflicts’ in Bavinck, Marrten; Pellegrini, Lorenzo and; Mostert, Erik (Eds) (2014) Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South: Conceptual Approach, CRC Press;
  18. Rutten, M. & M. Mwangi (2013) Do Geopolitical and Historical Contexts in Explaining Conflicts over Natural Resources Really Matter? An Example from Africa, ASC Infosheet 15, www.ascleiden.nl
  19. Rutten, Marcel & Moses Mwangi (2017) The Land Broker – The Underrated Role of the Broker in Land Transfers in Africa, Cocoon Initiative Kenya Working Paper No 4, Africa Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  20. Rutten, Marcel & Moses Mwangi (2016) Wives-For-Hire - Revealing the Practice of Imposing Fake Wives in Dispossessing Family Land in Africa, Working Paper No 5, Africa Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  21. Mwangi, M and Rutten, M (2011): “From State to Community-Based Water Resources Governance: Do Water Reforms in semi-arid Kenya Lead to Improved Access?” paper presented at the 3rd International Congress (Smallwat11): Wastewater in Small Communities, Towards the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)", Seville, Spain, 25 to 28 April 2011;
  22. Wens, Marthe; Isis, Veldkamp, Ted Elize; Mwangi, Moses; Johnson, J Michael; Lasage, Ralph; Haer, Toon and; Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (2020) ‘Simulating Small-scale Agricultural Adaptation Decisions in Response to Drought Risk - An Empirical Agent-based Model for Semi-arid Kenya’ Journal of Frontiers in Water
  23. Mwangi, Moses (2020) Vanishing Knowledge in Water Resources Development and Management in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya, Africa Knows! Conference, Africa Studies Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
  24. Wens, Marthe L.K., Moses N. Mwangi, Anne F. van Loon and Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts (2021) ‘Complexities of Drought Adaptive Behaviour: Linking Theory to Data on Smallholder Farmer Adaptation Decisions’ International’ Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  25. Mwangi, Moses (2021) Selling Water to Buy Hydrologic Drought in the Rangelands: A Conspiracy between Covid-19 and Education, Paper Presented at the International Conference on Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development, 3rd to 5th November, 2021, Murang’a University
  26. Ndungu, Charles Kimani and Moses Njuguna Mwangi (2022) “Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adaptations to Climate Change and Variability in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kitui and Kajiado Counties, Kenya” African Journal of Climate Change and Resource Sustainability 2 (1), 28-41.
  27. Wachieni, L. N. Jackson Ndolo Muthini, Charles K Ndungu and Moses Mwangi (2022) ‘The Influence of Information Security Management on Operational Performance of Humanitarian Value Chains in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya’, International Journal of Supply Chain and Logistics, ISSN 2520-3983, Vol. 6, Issue No.3, pp 61 - 68, 2022.
  28. Mwende, F.N., Charles Ndung’u, Moses Mwangi and Patricia Mwendo (2022) ‘Biophysical Vulnerability of Fish Farmers to Climate Variability and Extreme Events in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kitui County, Kenya’ International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 11 Number 09 (2022).
  29. Mwende, F.N., Charles Ndung’u, Moses Mwangi and Patricia Mwendo (2023) ‘Socio-economic Vulnerability and Adaptations of Fish Farmers to Climate Variability and Extreme Climate Events in Selected Parts of Kitui County, Kenya’ African Journal of Climate Change and Resource Sustainability, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2022, 13-2.

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