News and Updates
14Oct

Breeding for Resilience: Thanks to AICCRA Project, Western Uganda’s Farmers Take Charge of Saving the Indigenous Goat

BY MICHAEL WAKABI & BEN MOSES ILAKUT   BULIISA & KIBAALE, UGANDA: With support from ASARECA, NARO, and global agricultural research for development partners under the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) Project (https://aiccra.cgiar.org/), communities in Kibaale and Buliisa embark on a new chapter of sustainable livestock improvement through Community-Based...

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07Oct

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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07Oct

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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26Sep

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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A cross section of the goat stock belonging to one of the successful farmers in Buseesa in Kibaale
09Sep

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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05Aug

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
16Jul

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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24Jun

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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11Jun

ASARECA and CGIAR Deepen Collaboration to Drive Agricultural Transformation in Eastern and Central Africa

BY GENEVIEVE APIO Kampala, Uganda — May 2025 ASARECA continues to play a pivotal role in fostering regional collaboration with CGIAR centers to promote agricultural transformation, resilience, and food security in Eastern and Central Africa. Over the years, ASARECA has built a strong and strategic relationship with CGIAR partners, working together to...

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01Jun

ASARECA and National Potato Council of Kenya firm-up collaboration to boost potato value chain

BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT KAMPALA, UGANDA—ASARECA and the National Potato Council of Kenya (NPCK) have formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), especially to boost the performance of the potato value chain.   Strategically witnessed by an Africa-wide audience attending the 13th Triennial African Potato Association (APA) Conference at the Speke...

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