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Recent Resources
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| Best Bet Research Outputs | ASARECA | asarbestbetI.pdf | Kimenye L, Bombom A. 2009. A booklet with 40 abstracts of best-bet research outputs generated by former ASARECA research networks (NPPS) and their NARS partners in the East and Central African region. They represent a collection of well tried and tested technologies and approaches that have potential for up scaling to improve livelihoods. The abstracts, which have been grouped into 9 thematic clusters, give brief accounts of the key outputs generated and lessons learnt. |
| Why the low adoption of agricultural technologies in Eastern and Central Africa? | ASARECA | LOW ADOPTION (pdf for web).pdf | Agriculture is arguably the most important vehicle for realising economic development, creating employment and reducing poverty in Africa. In the Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) sub-region, agriculture accounts for about 43% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and over 60% of exports. About 70% of the population and nearly 90% of the poor work in agriculture where they depend on increased agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. |
| Best-bet technologies for addressing climate change and variability in Eastern and Central Africa | ASARECA | Kimenye L, ed. 2014. This publication contains of information on technologies and innovation for addressing climate change and variability in Eastern and Central Africa. They were compiled from national agricultural research system (NARS) and International research centers working in the ASARECA region. The information was submitted and discussed at a regional conference on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, Capacity Building and Agricultural Innovations to Improve Livelihoods in Eastern and Central Africa Post-Copenhagen (UNFCCC/COP151) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7ÔÇô9 June 2010. |
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| Scaling up Dissemination and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies using Innovation Platforms Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa | ASARECA | DONATA BOOK FINAL PDF (for web)_0.pdf | Between 2008 and 2013 ASARECA coordinated and provided leadership in implementing a project called Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa (DONATA) across 6 countries in eastern and central Africa. The approach in DONATA was the innovation platform for technology adoption (IPTA). At the start of the project, there were limited documented practical experiences and lessons from which to draw guidance for the implementing teams comprised of national agricultural research systems (NARS). Therefore, an inherent objective in the project was to document achievements, experiences and lessons learned on how the IPTA approach was used to disseminate technologies on orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) and quality protein maize (QPM). The DONATA experiences, the synthesis of lessons and guiding principles presented in this book are therefore a contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the application of innovation platforms and value chain framework in agricultural research for development in the region. The information shows how the DONATA project teams used the AIS theoretical concepts to establish and manage innovation platforms to disseminate and scale out OFSP and QPM technologies. ASARECA envisages that stakeholders within the region will find the book useful in their efforts to increase the spread and impact of science and technology in smallholder agriculture. |
| ASARECA Strategy for Scaling Up Agricultural Technologies and Innovations: 2014 - 2018 | ASARECA | KRA 1: Access to knowledge and information facilitated. This is about the processes and practices concerned with acquisition, archiving and sharing of knowledge. It is an integral part of the agricultural knowledge and information hub to be established in the implementation of OP2. KRA 2: Emergence of new agribusinesses facilitated. This result area is about research activities that can deliver value chain products and innovations (product development), and nurture the resulting products into fully-fledged agribusinesses. The mechanisms include agribusiness incubation by which a product or innovation from a research process is assessed for suitability and adapted for commercialization. KRA 3: Partnerships with scaling up service providing institutions enhanced. This output recognizes that dissemination of information and scaling up of technologies are complex and in some cases specialized processes which ASARECA cannot undertake alone. Potential partners include: non-governmental organisations (NGOs); actors in commodity agribusiness value chains; seed value chain actors; and the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS). KRA 4: Capacity for enabling environment and skills for scaling up enhanced. This result area deals with improving capacity of NARS, particularly the less resourced ones, for technology adoption and scaling up. It includes development of methods and approaches for scaling up and using them to enhance capacity of NARS in scaling up. KRA 5: Efficient market linkages between farmers and agribusinesses fostered. The focus here is to use innovative technologies including information and communication technology (ICT) tools and methods to provide producers, especially small-scale farmers with real-time market information and to link them to markets. The strategy borrows experiences from India, which show that provision of market information can greatly assist such farmers to choose what commodities to produce, what production technologies to apply, when to produce, and indeed for whom to produce. In other words, for smallholder farmers to change their situation and improve their livelihoods, provision of market information to them will be key to their transformation.
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| OPI Impacts | ASARECA | The report presents findings of the NRI/AfrII Impact Evaluation of the Association for Strengthening. Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)’s First Operational Plan (OP1) 2008-2013. |
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| ASARECA @25: Celebrating decades of Coordinating Collaborative Agricultural Research for Development (1994-2019). Abridged Version | ASARECA | The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) is a not-for-profit inter-governmental sub-regional organization. ASARECA comprises 12 member countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.ASARECA was established in 1994 by ten member States represented by their National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) following the approval of the Framework For Action (FFA) for agricultural research in Eastern and Central Africa by the Special Programme for Africa Agricultural Research (SPAAR). The original ten member States included Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The membership has since grown to 12 following the admission of South Sudan and Republic of the Congo in 2011 and 2019 respectively |
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| ASARECA @25: Celebrating decades of Coordinating Collaborative Agricultural Research for Development (1994-2019)- Full Version | ASARECA | ASARECA @ 25-FULL VERSION.pdf | ASARECA is strategically repositioned to perform a higher level facilitative, supportive, coordination and advocacy role to enhance sustainable agricultural transformation, sustained economic growth and inclusive development in the ECA subregion. To deliver on this role, ASARECA is now repositioned as the regional “Go to Service Provider of Choice for AR4D coordination, convening,partnership brokerage, process facilitation, and communication products and services.” These services are designed to deliver specific and targeted high priority inclusive and sustainable agricultural transformation and development outcomes and impact in the ECA sub region. |