- The document discusses the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), which has 11 member countries and 7 programs including a Livestock and Fisheries Programme. - The Livestock and Fisheries Programme has 4 thematic areas of intervention related to improving livestock and fisheries productivity, access to markets, value addition, and interactions between livestock/fisheries and the environment. - The document provides recommendations for how ASARECA's Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) can move forward, including conducting scoping studies to address regional constraints, integrating indigenous knowledge, promoting knowledge sharing, integrating crop-livestock-fisheries, developing gender-responsive technologies, and conducting participatory research.

1. Feed back and recommendations on how AAS
might most effectively move forward
By Emmanuel Zziwa
CGIAR/NEPAD/FARA Workshop on AAS in Africa – Lusaka, Zambia 14th
– 16th
May, 2013

2. ASARECA – Livestock & Fisheries Programme
• Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in
Eastern and Central Africa – est. 1994
• Currently comprised of 11 member countries: Burundi,
DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda,
S.Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda
• ASARECA has 7 programmes: Staple crops, high value non
staple crops, livestock and fisheries, agro-biodiversity and
biotechnology, natural resources management and
biodiversity, policy and advocacy and knowledge
management and sharing

3. The Livestock and Fisheries Programme
• Four thematic areas of intervention:
1. Improving livestock and fisheries productivity
– 1.2 Enhancing utilization of feed and water resources
– 1.4 Improving packaging and dissemination of technologies
– 1.5 Increasing productivity of inland and marine fisheries
2. Improving access to markets
– 2.2 Market analysis to inform policy and investment options
3. Improving value addition in input and output marketing chains
– 3.1 Development of innovative technologies for value addition
4. Improving sustainable interaction between livestock, fisheries
and the environment
– 4.2 Development of sustainable crop-livestock-fisheries environment
interactions for improved productivity

4. Moving AAS forward
• Differing constraints to management of AAS
(regional/country) hence need for scooping studies in different
regions/countries (i.e floods vs droughts)
• Consideration for ITK as a basis to designing appropriate
technologies for quick adoption (the what, why, when and how
should be answered before introducing new technologies)
• Knowledge sharing – Strong engagement with existing
regional and national organizations, government bodies and
CBO’s (publications vs brochures and leaflets)
• Integration of AAS components at farm level for improved
production and sustainability: crop-livestock-fisheries
integration (not only as separate enterprises) – focus on small
scale aquaculture

5. Moving AAS forward…
• Gender responsive agricultural technologies – developing
capacities in GTA
• Considering simple demand driven technologies rather than
complicated technologies
• Market analysis: producing for the market to realize impact of
technologies (which AAS products should be targeted)
• Need for participatory research with farmers for increased adoption
of technologies
• Translate lessons learnt elsewhere for scaling up and scaling out
to other regions/countries
• Community empowerment and resource mobilization – supporting
innovative community financing schemes

6. Thanks for listening

7. Thanks for listening