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...
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...
Mrs. Olivia Kishero from Uganda put into use what she learnt from the benchmarking exercise in Arusha, Tanzania BY GENEVIEVE APIO AND BEN MOSES ILAKUT Born on the slopes of Mountain Elgon in Uganda, Mrs. Olivia Kishero started growing coffee as a child in 1990. In July 2022, ASARECA, with financing...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the East African Farmers’ Federation (EAFF) and jointly implementing a project on Strengthening the Knowledge and Innovation Ecosystem for Inclusive Rural Transformation and Livelihoods in Eastern Africa (AIRTEA). The project...
