Prof. Elly N Sabiiti
President (2011-2013)
Prof. Elly N Sabiiti served as the President of the ASARECA General Assembly from 2011 to 2013. He is a Ugandan Emeritus Professor of Crop Sciences and the current Chairperson Committee of Appointments and Staff Welfare (CoASW), Bishop Stuart University, Uganda. Before joining Bishop Stuart University, he served as a Professor of Agricultural Science at the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, School of Agricultural Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala. He was the former Head of the Department and a former Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture. He is an elected member of the World Academy of Sciences, the Vice President, East Africa of African Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the U.S. State Department’s distinguished Fulbright Fellowship to Ohio University. Prof. Sabiiti holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick Canada; an MSc and BSc in Agriculture, both from Makerere University. He has contributed to the development of Agricultural Sciences through his research most of which is published in globally recognized publishers. They include: Utilizing agricultural waste to enhance food security and conserve the environment; Fire and acacia seeds: A hypothesis of Colonization Success; Status of Waste Management in the East African Cities: Understanding the Drivers of Waste Generation, Collection and Disposal and Their Impacts on Kampala City’s Sustainability; Utilization of market crop wastes as animal feed in urban and peri-Urban livestock production in Uganda; and A framework for assessing the Ecological Sustainability of Waste Disposal Sites.