Success Stories

Strengthening capacities of women and youth to adopt technologies and access markets

Youth benefiting from the AIRTEA Project in Rwanda. By Ben Ilakut; Joshua Okonya; Genevieve Apio Despite the existence of private sector-led multi-stakeholder partnerships for public research institutions, academia, policymakers and civil society in bringing about sustainable transformative change in AR4D, the extent of impact on the ground leaves a lot...

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From 1 to 3 tons: How Certified Seed Transformed Rwandan Farmers’ Potato Harvest

By Ambrose Aheisibwe (SDGC/A), Aloys Musabyisoni (RAB) and Joshua Okonya (ASARECA) My name is Faustin Ntankazarimana, and I chair the Haguka Mudende Innovation Platform (IP) in Mudende, Rubavu district, Rwanda. In 2022, our platform faced challenges, with sporadic meetings and dwindling membership.  Members rarely met, and as a result, some had...

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How pumpkins have stabilized Nalongo’s household income

Ms. Nakiwala Saniya Nalongo, 60, from Bubanzi village,Nsambya Parish, Kakindu sub-county, Mityana district, has been widowed for 13-years. She got interested in pumpkin farming as a business when she learnt that Mr. Magezi, the chairperson of an organised group, St. Joseph’s farmers group, had registered some successes in pumpkin farming. The...

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Facilitating transfer of wheat varieties to Cameroon

ASARECA received a request from the Director General of Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (IRAD) in July 2022 to support the Institute to source bread wheat genotypes from ASARECA member countries for testing in Cameroon agro-ecologies in order to identify the best performing lines. The Cameroonian Government had just...

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Ugandan youth group takes Tropical Agriculture Platform Common Framework to local communities

Participants during a training session at Spark Uganda, a youth empowerment facility near Kampala GENEVIEVE APIO Upon returning to his home country—Uganda, Allan Ahimbisibwe, a beneficiary of the training of Trainers (ToT) on integration of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) Common Framework (CF) into NARIs and farmer organisations, incorporated lessons learnt in...

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Kenya Farmer Success Story

Mary Samson Mueni (centre with scarf) participates in a training workshop on promotion of digital solutions and climate foresight data in enhancing agricultural policy implementation and decision-making in Eastern and Central Africa. Upon receiving an appropriately packaged climate forecast disseminated in October 2022 for upcoming short rains with poor distribution, Mary...

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Catalyzing cross-border transfer of agricultural technologies through benchmarking

Director National Animal Resources Institute, NARO, Dr. Swidiq Mugerwa (left) explains forage systems to visiting researchers BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT ASARECA organized two successive benchmarking exercises on 18 to 22 October 2021 and 4-8 July, 2022, which were hosted by the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Uganda (with 43 participants) and the...

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