BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT LILONGWE, MALAWI — Commitment to: Domestic resource mobilization at national, Continental regional level; mobilization of women and youth as drivers of extension and advisory services delivery; building and nurturing coalitions; building a critical mass of extension and advisory services providers. These are some of the key demands...
BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KIGALI, KAMPALA, NAIROBI & ADIS ABABA—In the first half of 2025, ASARECA, in collaboration with ILRI and partner projects including AICCRA and LEG4DEV, convened a series of national consultative workshops in Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Uganda to co-design Climate-Smart Legume Production Guidelines and Manuals. These workshops were...
BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT NAKURU & NAIVASHA, KENYA—ASARECA and Farm Inputs Promotions Africa ( FiPs-Africa) on April 28 to May 1 supplied cuttings of 26,000 farmer preferred potato varieties including Shangi, Unica, and Wanjiku, 200 kgs of fertilizer and assorted pesticides to farmers and stakeholders in Marioshoni, Elbergon in Nakuru County...
BY GENEVIEVE APIO 26 MARCH 2025 – TANA RIVER COUNTY, KENYA – Participants, mainly farmers from Hola Irrigation Farmers' Cooperative have received training in Best Agronomic Practices during an Innovation Roadshow and Exhibition convened by ASARECA and partners KALRO and CIHEAM-BARI. The event under the WATDEV project was aimed at showcasing...
BY GENEVIEVE APIO NYANDARUA & NUKURU, KENYA – MARCH 2, 2025 – In a transformative move to enhance market access and climate resilience among smallholder farmers, ASARECA, in collaboration with key partners, the National Potato Council of Kenya (NPCK), Egerton University, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), and agriBORA,...
BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT GIGIRI, NAIROBI, KENYA—Partnerships. Joint action. Collaboration. This semantic field, denoting effectively working together and underscoring the importance of leveraging competences and resources from multiple institutions and actors in the food systems resonated throughout the week-long CGIAR inaugural Science which just ended on April 12, at the United...
BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT DEBRE ZEIT, ETHIOPIA—The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Centra Africa (ASARECA), the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies-Institute of Bari (CIHEAM Bari) and the Italian Agency for Development Corporation (AICS) have joined Ethiopian partners, Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC), Addis Ababa University,...
ENGLISH RECRUITMENT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EXTENSION OF APPLICATION DEADLINE Refer to the Advertisement and Full Job description below for the recruitment of ASARECA Executive Director. Kindly note that the application deadline has been extended from 19th to 24th April. The application information below including the access link is still valid. The Association for Strengthening...
Julian Barungi, Wandabwa Wanyama & Ben Moses Ilakut NAIROBI, KENYA –ASARECA, in partnership with the European Commission, IFAD, CORAF, CCARDESA, FARA, and AFAAS on March 25, 2025 hosted a pivotal side event during the 2nd Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The event, titled “Regional Policy Roundtable on Enhancing the...
BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT ENTEBBE, UGANDA: ASARECA Interim Executive Director, Dr. Sylvester Dickson Baguma on March 6, 2025 received the Director General (DG) Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), Dr. Samson Musonerimana at ASARECA Secretariat offices in Entebbe Uganda. The Director General was accompanied by the Director for Research, ISABU,...
