Jonathan Muriuki has his career objective as pursuit of research and development activities that improve livelihoods of the rural poor in agroforestry and related sustainable development fields. He is an agroforestry scientist with over 15 years of work experience and holds an MSc and PhD in this field. Jonathan has been engaged in different aspects of programme design, implementation and management.
He has conducted research for development activities in agroforestry ranging from tree seed and seedling supply systems, farm productivity research with various categories of tree species notably fodder, medicinal, fertilizer trees and aspects of timber and fruit trees as well as tree product market related research. His research activities have spanned the entire eastern Africa region and he has had brief assignments in some countries of southern and western regions as well.
He has experience in handling diverse stakeholders especially those involved with implementation of projects ranging from farming communities, Non-governmental Organizations, the private sector and national government partners. He also has working experience with regards to preparing project reports for donors, projects/ programme finance and budgets as well as constituting and managing project and site teams as both team leader and team player.