Broadening horizons: institutional, policy and technical innovations for improving NRM and agricultural productivity in the east and central African highlands, phase 3 - 2002-2004. Profile report to ASARECA

The African Initiative (AHI) is a collaborative research iniyiative focusing on key natural resource management(NRM) and agricultural productivity issues in highlands of east and central africa. The founders of AHI choose the intensively caltivated highlands eco-region in 1995 as an area wher partnership could make a difference. The founders were concerned NARI and IARCs.working in the region that expressed the need to improve R$D approches and partnerships as amajor way to increase the impact of research,which has been elusive given limited adoption of ''proven'' NRM technologies.In responce to this challange, ASARECA approved the initiation of AHI in 1995, as one of its first new programs. AHI is a relatively unique entity among the 18 networks and programs led by ASARECA as it is ''cross-cutting'' in terms of intergrating the technology innovations that many of the other networks distinctively handle; it is the only ''eco-regional''focused program;and it is the only initiative ,that is, where there is need to build the limited research capacity and to work on developing new research areas.AHI is hosted by ICRAF, and facilitates the contribution from a consortium of research organizations that provide a range of expertise aimed at solving the complex resource degradation issues in the highlands.

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