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