SARI
Mission
- Generate, develop, adapt and promote agricultural technologies and information that will make the Region food-secure, and foster commercialization of agriculture and sustainable natural resource use; build up a research capacity and establish a system that will make agricultural research of the Region more efficient and effective.
Objective
- Provide new agricultural technologies to ensure accelerated and sustainable development for the benefit of farming communities and broader society.
Values
- Ensuring active participation of farmers, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in research process
- Contributing to accelerated and sustainable transformation in agricultural development
- Providing technological options in the form of packages to agricultural extension system and other partners in the sector
Strategic Areas of Focus
- Generation/adaptation of improved agricultural technologies and related information
- Pre-extension demonstration and transfer of improved agricultural technologies
- Multiplication of starter technologies and supplying to technology multipliers/end users
- Developing research institutional capacity