Newsletter

In this issue: Launch of 1st ASARECA General Assembly; Improving indigenous vegetables to boost incomes; Processing dry amaranth leaves; The darling orange flesh sweet potato; Livestock feed information; and many more.

In this issue: Making good out of climate change; Pen-size kit to check epilepsy; Four Striga resistant sorghum varieties released; Quality protein maize spreads in Democratic republic of Congo; Rwanda deploys SCARDA scientists to drive strategic research; Experts share lessons on technology dissemination

In this issue: ASARECA gets new Executive Director; Controlling the deadly banana wilt disease; Promoting banana juice processing innovations; Ensuring that livestock gets adequate feeding even in drought; Empowering farmers to effectively respond to climate change; Promoting sorghum- legume interaction for better yields; Takin the fight against Striga a notch higher; Investing in pearl millet; Burundi research gets injection of young well scientists -

In this issue: A big thank you to all ASARECA development partners; Innovations that yield higher incomes; We want more private sector - stakeholders tell ASARECA; Smallholder farmrs embrace commercial AIV farming; Rwandan youth embrace farming for the market; Counting the gains from water and soil management innovations in Eastern and Central Africa; Farmers benefitting from weather forecasts; and many more.

In this issue: A big thank you to all ASARECA development partners; Innovations that yield higher incomes; We want more private sector - stakeholders tell ASARECA; Smallholder farmrs embrace commercial AIV farming; Rwandan youth embrace farming for the market; Counting the gains from water and soil management innovations in Eastern and Central Africa; Farmers benefitting from weather forecasts; and many more.

During its first Operational Plan (OP1 2008 2013), ASARECA scored remarkable achievements in transforming agriculture to improve livelihoods in the region. After receiving approval from development partners including the European Union, USAID East Africa, Swedish International Development Agency and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, ASARECA plans to build on successes from the just concluded first Operational Plan (OP I) by commissioning projects to scale out the successes.