News Updates
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European Union, African Union and national partnership requires close coordination
01 September 2021BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT & MOSES ODEKE—Efforts aimed at building enduring Alliances between national governments, Sub-Regional Organisations (SROs), the African Union and European partners, must be...
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Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives in ASARECA countries are uncoordinated
27 August 2021Increasing food production, improving resilience and reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will help address the three key tenets of CSA (productivity, resilience and reduction of emissions...
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ASARECA member countries form Umbrella Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance
18 August 2021By Genevieve Apio ENTEBBE: Over 60 key stakeholders drawn from ASARECA member countries have agreed to form an umbrella Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Alliance. The stakeholders also designated...
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ASARECA to convene workshop to mainstream Climate Smart Agriculture in NARIS
10 August 2021By Genevieve Apio ENTEBBE: Preparations for a workshop aimed at institutionalizing Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) among ASARECA’s key constituent is in advanced stages. The meeting convened by the...
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Welcome Maj. Gen. David Kyomukama, Uganda’s New Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture
23 July 2021On behalf of the ASARECA Council of Patron Ministers, the ASARECA Board of Directors, the Committee of Directors General of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of our 14 member...
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Welcome Hon. Frank Tumwebaze, Uganda’s New Agriculture Minister
23 July 2021On behalf of the ASARECA Council of Patron Ministers, the ASARECA Board of Directors, the Committee of Directors General of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of our 14 member...
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Statement by ASARECA Board of Directors Chairman on changes at ASARECA Secretariat
21 July 2021Statement by ASARECA Board of Directors Chairman, Dr. Godffrey Mkamilo, on changes at ASARECA Secretariat Dear Esteemed ASARECA Stakeholders, I would like to inform you all about some...
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Dr. Warinda Appointed ASARECA Interim Executive Director
08 July 2021By Ben Moses Ilakut ENTEBBE: The ASARECA Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Enock Warinda as the Interim Executive Director of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and...
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Africa’s cities offer largest market for Agricultural Products
25 March 2021BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT Africa’s rapidly growing cities offer the largest and fastest growing market opportunity available to the continent’s 60 million farms, a new report has revealed. According to the...
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Pursuing deadly viruses: Researchers crack Whitefly genes in efforts to curb crop viruses
25 March 2021BY BEN MOSES ILAKUT Several years since ASARECA coordinated a concerted assault against Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CSBD), a devastating disease of cassava which hit the Eastern and Central...