News Updates
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ASARECA @25: Celebrating decades of Coordinating Collaborative Agricultural Research for Development (1994-2019)
08 April 2020ASARECA has published a book titled: ASARECA @25. Celebrating decades of Coordinating Collaborative Agricultural Research for Development (1994-2019). The book is published in two versions: (i) Full...
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Message to ASARECA stakeholders and partners in the face of COVID-19 pandemic
03 April 2020Dear esteemed colleagues, There is no doubt to ASARECA management that all of you our esteemed partners are right now dealing with the life-threatening effects of COVID-19 (Corona Virus). It is...
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Dealing with food security in the face of COVID-19: Where Governments should focus
02 April 2020Ben Moses Ilakut: As the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) continues to spread rapidly across the globe, countries across the world have shut down major socioeconomic functions, putting livelihoods in a...
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Opportunities for Agriculture Amidst COVID-19
01 April 2020By Alis Okonji--As new statistics of infections, death and recovery of the novel Covid-19 global pandemic continue to stream into our homes, one thing remains certain. We must all eat healthy...
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Partnerships key for Harmonizing Biosafety Regulations in Africa
10 March 2020By Jean Jaques Mobonigaba Muhinda: The latest report on global status of commercialized biotech crops shows a total of 70 countries have adopted biotech crops through cultivation and importation....
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Transporting Biotechnology Data to impact livelihoods
09 March 2020BY ALIS OKONJI-Regional efforts to harmonize biosafety regulations and adoption of biotechnology practices are underway within COMESA member states. The uptake and upscaling of agricultural...
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LOCUST UPDATE: South Sudan, Congo latest to be hit by locust invasion
27 February 2020By Alis Okonji: The swarms of locusts that continue to devastate crops and grazing lands in the East Africa region have spread into Congo and South Sudan. Mature locusts, carried in part by the wind...
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ASARECA and ISAAA Sign MOU on Biotechnology
24 February 2020Great news for Eastern and Central Africa as the regional go-to AR4D service provider of choice (ASARECA) partners with the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications(...
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Understanding Africa’s Agriculture Research Priorities
19 February 2020By Alis Okonji—The current global economic crisis, rising food prices and the threat of climate change have reinforced the urgency to find lasting solutions to Africa’s agricultural challenges. ...
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ASARECA, AFAAS, CCARDESA, CORAF, FARA meet to harmonise project implementation
14 February 2020By Ben Moses Ilakut ACCRA, Ghana—“Africa has never had a problem coming up with good policies. Africa’s problem is how to implement these policies,” experts from the Comprehensive African...