http://www.asareca.org

Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa

Mission
To strengthen and increase the efficiency of agricultural research in ECA, and to facilitate economic growth, food security and export competitiveness through productive and sustainable agriculture.

Strategic Goal
ASARECA's primary goal is to facilitate agricultural research in ECA that will promote agriculture oriented towards markets and income generation.
Its secondary goal is to serve as the main forum where strategies and ideas for agricultural research and their relationship to agricultural development in the sub-region are conceived and exchanged.

Strategic Objective
To promote regional economic growth by developing, introducing and disseminating agricultural technologies that respond to the markets and to the prevailing and future economic opportunities for new technologies as well as maintaining the long term sustainability of the agricultural resource base.

Strategies/Planned Results

• Demand driven technologies utilized
• Enabling policy environment for agricultural transformation in the ECA
• Performance driven institutional arrangements
• Enhanced utilization of information