ASARECA & KALRO to train women farmers in Machakos, Kenya to adapt to Climate Change
Kenya is one of the most hit countries in Eastern and Central Africa with over 80,000 households affected by the El Nino rains. These rains have far reaching effects for farmers and are threatening food security now and in the near future. ASARECA and KALRO have over the years supported farmers in Machakos to adapt to climate change BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT ENTEBBE, UGANDA: ASARECA and partners are organizing a four-day training aimed...
Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Meets ASARECA Board Vice Chair and ASARECA Executive Director
NAIROBI, KENYA: ASARECA Board of Directors Vice Chairman, Ambassador Dr. Kipyego Cheluget and ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda held discussions with Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary, His Excellency Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi. H.E Mudavadi, who is also the Minister of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, met the ASARECA delegation on November 8 in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Burundi Agriculture Minister, ASARECA ED discuss regional AR4D priorities
ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda and the Board of Directors Vice Chairman, Ambassador Dr. Kipyego Cheluget today (November 7,) 2023 held discussions with His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock of Burundi, Ir. Prosper Dodiko at his office in the capital, Bujumbura.
ASARECA courts EAC to streamline partnership for coordination of aflatoxin prevention
KAMPALA, Uganda: ASARECA supports national and regional initiatives on prevention and control of aflatoxin and its associated losses, ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda has said. Addressing participants during a two-day strategic engagement workshop on Aflatoxin prevention and control on October 23 to 24, 2023 in Kampala, Uganda, Dr. Warinda pledged to work with the East African Community to coordinate efforts to jerk current slow progress in prevention of aflatoxin contamination...
Regional Dialogue to address disconnect between agriculture and conservation
The Regional Common Ground Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture has identified the disconnect between agriculture and conservation, lack of methods to monitor land health, poor understanding of Nature-Based Solutions within the agriculture sector as some of the critical challenges that that impede optimal delivery of goods in the Agricultural sector.
Regional Dialogue calls for promotion of nature-based solutions for sustainable agriculture
It is the best interest of current and future generations that researchers should promote nature-based solutions because such solutions provide significant benefits to human beings and the environment as a whole, ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda has told participants at the just concluded Regional Common Ground Dialogue for Mainstreaming Sustainable Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa.
High-Level Sustainable Agriculture Dialogue Addresses Urgent Need for Change
Kampala, Uganda — October 17th, 2023 Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in collaboration with the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and under the leadership of the Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, is convening a Regional Common Ground Regional Dialogue for Mainstreaming Sustainable Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa held in Kampala, Uganda. This event, under the theme...
Kenyan High Commissioner, ASARECA ED in talks over resourcing ASARECA
ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda, on October 11, 2023 paid a courtesy call to the Kenyan Kenya High Commissioner to Rwanda, Ambassador Philip Mundia Githiora at the High Commission officers in Blv de L’ Umuganda, Kigali, Rwanda. Dr. Warinda was accompanied by ASARECA Board of Directors Vice-Chairman, Ambassador, Kipyego Cheluget. Among other things, discussions with Ambassador Githora centred on role of Diplomatic Missions as brand ambassador of ASARECA, as part...
ASARECA pushes for closer collaboration with AGRA
ASARECA Board of Directors Vice-Chairman, Ambassador, Kipyego Cheluget on October 12, held talks with AGRA Acting Vice-President in charge of Programmes, Prof. Jean Jaques Mbonigaba Muhinda, at AGRA offices in Nairobi, Kenya. The talks centred around close collaboration between the two institutions to leverage complementarities, avoid publication and wastage of resources while maximising economies of scale. During the talks, Ambassador Cheluget highlighted the benefits that AGRA stands to gain by utilising already...
Eritrea Agriculture Minister, ASARECA Executive Director Discuss Regional Priorities
ASARECA Executive Director, Dr. Enock Warinda on September 21, 2023 held discussions with the Minister of Agriculture, the State of Eritrea Hon. Arefaine Berhe at Ministry of Agriculture offices in the Capital, Asmara. The minister was flanked by Mr. Amanuel Negassi, the Special Advisor to the Minister, who is also the President of ASARECA General Assembly; and Dr. Tsegay Berhe, the Director General of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Eritrea.