ASARECA

07OctOctober 7, 2025

When an African farmer earns USD8,276 in a year, we call it success: How ASARECA, AICCRA partners and Virtual Irrigation Academy tool are turning-around smallholder irrigated farming in Uganda

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KASESE, WESTERN UGANDA—United States Dollars (USD) 8,276 in three seasons in one year. When Johny Benet Murangi and his son, Dedan Murangi, both farmers at the Mobuku-1 Irrigation Scheme in Kasese district in Southwestern Uganda, received soil moisture, temperature, nutrients, and salts monitoring tools from ASARECA and...

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07OctOctober 7, 2025

Game-changing tool to predict crop potential introduced to Uganda by ASARECA and CGIAR partners

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KAMPALA, UGANDA: The introduction of a tool meant to enhance the capacity of researchers to predict crop performance viz-a-viz climatic conditions has placed Uganda in a favourable position to transform how farmers, policymakers, and agribusinesses respond to increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. Known as the Climate Smart Agriculture Crop...

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26SepSeptember 26, 2025

Uganda’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Platform Charts Path to Resilience

BY MICHAEL WAKABI & BEN MOSES ILAKUT KAMPALA, UGANDA: The success of Uganda’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Multi-Stakeholder Platform (UG-CSA-MSP) will depend entirely on how far stakeholders are willing to collaborate and coordinate their efforts, Maj. Gen. David Kasura-Kyomukama, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), has said. Speaking...

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12SepSeptember 12, 2025

How ASARECA, FARA, EAAF are stimulating uptake of innovations rural agriculture-based livelihoods in Uganda

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT How Black Soldier Fly (BSF) rearing is rewriting the script on how livestock, poultry, fish, and crops can be fed cost effectively using BSF larvae; how dissemination and value addition initiatives for clean cassava seed are defining the future of one of Africa’s leading staples and industrial...

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A cross section of the goat stock belonging to one of the successful farmers in Buseesa in Kibaale

09SepSeptember 9, 2025

ASARECA, ICARDA, ILRI, NARO move to boost goat productivity via community breeding of indigenous goats

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KIBAALE & BULIISA—UGANDA: Goat farmers, agricultural extension officers, value chain actors and local leaders in the districts of Kibale District in Western Uganda and the oil rich Buliisa District also in Western Uganda have received a mindset changing training and sensitization on establishment of Community Based Breeding...

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30AugAugust 30, 2025

How Africa, European Union partnership is boosting potato technologies for income and nutrition security in rural Kenya

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT NAKURU—KENYA: Only four months since ASARECA and its national level partners introduced proven climate smart potato varieties to farmers in Marioshoni, Elbergon in Nakuru County and Murungaru in Nyandarua county of Kenya, results posted by the game-changing varieties, Shangi, Unica, and Wanjiku have caused excitement. According to Mr....

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05AugAugust 5, 2025

Regional Trainers Empowered to Champion Climate-Smart Agriculture through Agroecology ToT in Uganda

BY GENEVIEVE APIO Kampala, Uganda | July 14–18, 2025 – Over 30 Trainers of Trainers (ToTs) from six ASARECA partner states, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Cameroon, gathered in Kampala for an intensive 5-day Regional ToT on Integrated Pest and Disease Management and Agroecology. Among the participants were 9 youth,...

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Dr. Bagabe (Front left) and RAB DG, Ndabamenye with CGIAR and ASARECA staff during the Dialogue

16JulJuly 16, 2025

ASARECA Private Sector Dialogue generates critical inputs into the African Conference on Agricultural Technologies discourse

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KIGALI, RWANDA—"Countries don’t fail because they lack policies to facilitate agricultural productivity and open up access to markets. They fail because they lack strong political will to ensure technologies from research are profitable.” This is one of powerful messages that was delivered during the Private sector Dialogue...

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15JulJuly 15, 2025

How ASARECA, European Union and World Bank last mile initiatives are flashing a ray of hope to Rwandan Potato farmers

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT MUSANZE, RWANDA: Farmers in Shingiro in Musanze District, Rwanda are upbeat following an unprecedented bumper harvest of the much-coveted potato varieties Cyerekezo and Ndamira. During the first week of June 2025, the farmers, most of them members of Dukomeze Ubuzima Cooperative facilitated by ASARECA, Seed Potato Fund-Ikigega...

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24JunJune 24, 2025

Dr. Sylvester Dickson Baguma Appointed Substantive ASARECA Executive Director

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT ENTEBBE, UGANDA—The ASARECA Board of Directors have appointed Dr. Sylvester Dickson Baguma as the Substantive Executive Director of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). The full Board of Directors, comprising the Directors General of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of...

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When an African farmer earns USD8,276 in a year, we call it success: How ASARECA, AICCRA partners and Virtual Irrigation Academy tool are turning-around smallholder irrigated farming in Uganda

When an African farmer earns USD8,276 in a year, we call it success: How ASARECA, AICCRA partners and Virtual Irrigation Academy tool are turning-around smallholder irrigated farming in Uganda

Game-changing tool to predict crop potential introduced to Uganda by ASARECA and CGIAR partners

Uganda’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Platform Charts Path to Resilience

How ASARECA, FARA, EAAF are stimulating uptake of innovations rural agriculture-based livelihoods in Uganda

ASARECA, ICARDA, ILRI, NARO move to boost goat productivity via community breeding of indigenous goats

How Africa, European Union partnership is boosting potato technologies for income and nutrition security in rural Kenya

Regional Trainers Empowered to Champion Climate-Smart Agriculture through Agroecology ToT in Uganda

ASARECA Private Sector Dialogue generates critical inputs into the African Conference on Agricultural Technologies discourse

How ASARECA, European Union and World Bank last mile initiatives are flashing a ray of hope to Rwandan Potato farmers

Dr. Sylvester Dickson Baguma Appointed Substantive ASARECA Executive Director

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