News Updates
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Keeping Napier as best feeding option in Burundi, Rwanda
08 July 2013A new project meant to help farmers in the sub-region to access innovations to control the incidence of Napier smut and stunt diseases, is on course. The project; Validating Management Practices to...
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Ensuring that livestock get adequate feeding even in drought
08 July 2013Until the close of 2012, ASARECA implemented projects which produced and tested several technologies and innovations to improve livestock productivity and marketing in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania....
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Regional efforts to control banana wilt disease
08 July 2013A team of scientists from Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, supported by ASARECA, is working with farmers and local communities to control the deadly disease, Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW...
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Results out - District council approves Sustainable Land Use Bill
20 March 2013ASARECA’s efforts to create conducive policies, regulations and incentives for farmers in Bukwo district in Eastern Uganda could soon pay off. After four years of support to the district to make...
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Turning climate change risks into opportunities
23 November 2012Until recently, Anthony Mwangi Kieti, a farmer from Machakos in Kenya, knew that his homeland was a good-for nothing undulating topography. Mwangi’s location has been a victim of hyper-galloping...
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What are they doing, where? Tracing ASARECA/SCARDA MsSc scientists
26 September 2012(A series of articles detailing how the former ASARECA/SCARDA scientists were received back in their countries, where they have been deployed and the contribution they are making to their countries)...
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Mainstreaming crusade to unleash the potential of drylands
26 September 2012Drylands occupy about 90% the total land area of Kenya, 75% of Tanzania and 67% of Ethiopia. However, the low amount of rainfall in drylands and the high degree of climatic variability limits the...
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Hope for African Sorghum farmers as Striga resistant variety is released
08 August 2012Hassan, a farmer from North Kordofan in Sudan, was ecstatic when four new varieties of sorghum were released by the Agricultural Research Corporation, Sudan on June 19 2012 at the ministry of...
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Opening up a global dream for Rwandan rural banana processors.
05 June 2012Christine Murebwayire, one of the 20 members of COPROVIBA cooperative, is confident that her cooperative is set to become one of RwandaÔÇÖs most acclaimed rural farm based entrepreneurs. Recently,...
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First GM tropical maize in Africa; how far, how soon?
09 March 2012The announcement at the close of 2011 of the successful transformation of nine transgenic maize lines by scientists funded and coordinated by ASARECA has generated excitement across the continent....