Dear AR4D colleagues, Climate change continues to take a heavy toll on the agriculture sector in ASARECA member countries, putting years of economic progress at risk. The most affected are millions of farmers, especially smallholder rural farmers who bear the brunt of climate change including uneven rainfall distribution, extremes of temperatures,...
Dear AR4D colleagues, Since 2018, ASARECA has embarked on implementing its repositioned function as the regional “Go to Service Provider of Choice for AR4D coordination, convening, partnership brokerage, and process facilitation to deliver specific priority inclusive development outcomes and impact. To this end, we are coordinating the implementation of initiatives that...
Dear AR4D colleagues, ASARECA in collaboration with ASARECA the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT organized a training workshop on application of foresight data in enhancing agricultural policy implementation and decision making in Eastern and Central Africa. The training was organized under is the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for...
Dear AR4D colleagues, ASARECA in collaboration with KALRO held a “Dialogue on Commercialization of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies, Innovations and Management Practices in Eastern & Central Africa” from March 15th to 18, 2022. The overall objective of the dialogue was to promote commercialization of climate-relevant agricultural TIMPs in Eastern and Central Africa. The specific...
Dear AR4D colleagues, The ASARECA Committee of Directors General (CDG) held a physical consultative meeting with representatives of One CGIAR on February 24-25th, 2022 in Entebbe Uganda. The overall objective of the 4th meeting of the CDG and One CGIAR was to identify and discuss critical areas and mechanisms of collaboration...
Dear AR4D colleagues, The five consortium members constituting the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP ex-Pillar IV) Programme can proudly assert that we are on track in implementing the unique initiative aimed at enabling agricultural research and innovation, and Extension services to contribute effectively to food and nutrition security, economic development...
Dear AR4D colleagues, The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) experts drawn from ASARECA member NARIs held a five-day training and consultation workshop on the role of Knowledge Management and Monitoring and Evaluation in Agricultural Transformation. Overall, it emerged that M&E and KMC have been neglected in...
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Enock Warinda as the substantive Executive Director of the Association. Following deliberations during their 31st Ordinary Board of Directors meeting in Entebbe, Uganda on December 13, 14, 2021, the Board unanimously agreed that...
Dear esteemed stakeholders, Enabling policy environment, functional markets and transformative institutions is one of ASARECA’s key thematic areas. The thematic area aims at supporting and advocating for establishment of: (i) a transformative enabling policy and regulatory environment; (ii) functional and structured regional input and output markets; and (iii) transformative regional institutions...
Dear esteemed stakeholders, Greetings from ASARECA Secretariat. Over the last two weeks it has been a bee-hive of activity at the Secretariat. October 14-16: We held a hybrid (physical/virtual) write-shop for the mooted Eastern and Central Africa Agriculture mega-programme, covering all the 14 ASARECA countries. Leading researchers appointed by the Directors General of...
