ASTI Country Note

Total public agricultural R&D capacity in Argentina has rapidly increased since the country emerged from the 1999-2002 economic crisis. This increase is mainly due to strong growth in INTA’s researcher totals, which rose from 1,180 FTEs in ...

Overarching responsibility for the coordination of public agricultural research in Bangladesh lies with BARC, which is responsible for planning, integration, implementation, and evaluation of research. Like many other low-income countries, ...

Botswana’s agricultural R&D capacity and investments rose rapidly during 1995–2007. However, inflationary pressures and a considerable exodus of R&D staff from DAR, the country’s principal public agricultural R&D agency, caused ...

Muchos países desarrollados y en desarrollo registran niveles de inversión en investigación agropecuaria pública que permanecen estancados o incluso disminuyen. La inversión aumenta solamente en algunos de los países en desarrollo más avanzados y ...

Many developing and developed countries are experiencing stagnant and even declining investment in public agricultural research. Expenditure is increasing in only a few of the larger and often more advanced developing countries. Brazil ranks ...

In 2008, Burkina Faso’s investments in agricultural R&D totaled 3.9 billion CFA francs, or 19.5 million dollars (both in 2005 prices). This amount included the salary, operational, and program costs that were covered through government ...

Les événements politiques de 1993 ont eu un impact néfaste sur la R&D agricole burundaise. L’infrastructure de recherche a été en grande partie détruite ou endommagée, les bailleurs de fonds étrangers ont suspendu leur assistance et les ...

Unsurprisingly, investments for agricultural research in Burundi suffered enormously as a result of the civil war. Donor funding halted, government contributions to agricultural research declined, and significant numbers of qualified researchers ...

Despite a decrease in the total number of researchers at INIA in recent years, overall agricultural research capacity in Chile rose gradually during 1981–2006. In 2006, the country as a whole employed close to 700 fte scientists involved in ...

Después de una década de fuerte crecimiento en los años 1980, la expansión de la capacidad total de investigación agropecuaria de Colombia se estabilizó a mediados de los años 1990. En 2006, el país empleaba a unos 1.000 científicos ETC en ...

Au cours des années 90, la recherche agricole en Côte d’Ivoire connut d’importants changements avec le lancement du PNASA, projet en grande partie financé par un prêt de la Banque mondiale et qui aboutit à la création du CNRA. Le coup d’État de ...

Agricultural R&D investments in Eritrea have declined rapidly since the turn of the millennium, largely due to the completion of the FAO–led project Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eritrea, funded by the Government of Italy, and ...

Agricultural R&D investment and human resource capacity have both grown since the early 1990s in Ethiopia. Agricultural research spending doubled between 1993 and 2000, and then doubled again during 2000–01. The 2008 value of investment at ...

Au cours de ces dernières décennies, les dépenses consacrées à la recherche agricole au Gabon ont témoigné d’une très grande volatilité. En 2008, le pays investissait 406 millions de francs CFA à la R&D agricole, soit 1,6 million de dollars ...

Agriculture in Gabon has traditionally been overshadowed by more economically attractive sectors such as mining and oil, with the result that the country’s agricultural expenditures and researcher numbers have remained exceptionally low compared ...

Agricultural research expenditures and funding increased marginally in Ghana throughout the 1990s. Like counterparts across much of Africa, agricultural R&D agencies in Ghana remained highly dependent on government and donor funding, with ...

Compared with neighboring countries, agricultural R&D in Guinea is characterized by a low level of highly qualified (masters- and doctoral-level) research staff, by much lower expenditures per researcher, and by a very low ...

India has substantially increased its public funding of agricultural research since the late 1990s. This trend will likely continue in years to come. The Indian government’s strong commitment to agricultural R&D has been rewarded with high ...

Public agricultural R&D in Kenya continues to be relatively well-funded and staffed compared with many other African countries. In 2008, the country employed over 1,000 FTE agricultural researchers and spent 4.5 billion Kenyan shillings or ...

L’instabilité politique, la chute des cours mondiaux des produits agricoles et tout dernièrement, le déclenchement de la guerre civile en septembre 2002 ont créé un climat d’incertitude financière au sein du système de recherche agricole ...

Depuis le début des années 90, le nombre des chercheurs agricoles mauritaniens n’a cessé de croître, bien que l’augmentation des effectifs que l’IMROP a connu au cours de ces dernières années masque la diminution du nombre des chercheurs au CNERV ...

Overall, agricultural researcher totals in Laos increased during 1998–2003, while the country’s agricultural R&D expenditures followed a more irregular trend. With the creation of NAFRI in 1999 through the amalgamation of the country’s nine ...

Le fait qu’au Burundi les investissements concernant la recherche agricole aient terriblement souffert des effets de la guerre civile ne surprendra personne. Les financements des donateurs ont pris fin, les contributions du gouvernement ont été ...

Même si le nombre total de chercheurs au sein de la R&D agricole a continué à croître (quoique à un taux très faible ces dernières années), les dépenses consacrées à la R&D agricole ont connu à Madagascar une baisse spectaculaire au cours ...

L’effectif total de chercheurs agricoles du Niger a augmenté de façon constante jusque vers le milieu des années 90, avant de légèrement baisser. Les dépenses consacrées à la R&D agricole du pays ont évolué très irrégulièrement jusqu’en 1998, ...

Du fait de la conjugaison de l’augmentation du nombre de chercheurs dans les secteurs de l’enseignement supérieur et des organisations à but non lucratif avec la diminution des effectifs au sein des organismes d’État, le nombre de chercheurs ...

Over the past few decades, agricultural R&D in Madagascar has largely been dependent on donor funding, including consecutive projects financed through World Bank loans and in-kind technical support from France in the form of a relatively ...

After a period of growth, total spending on agricultural research in Malawi was cut by half between the mid-1980s and 2001 despite two consecutive World Bank–supported projects. Substantial investments were made under NARP to improve ...

Au Mali, malgré tous les efforts que les autorités ont faits ces dernières décennies pour promouvoir le développement agricole, la R&D agricole reste largement tributaire de l’aide accordée par des bailleurs de fonds et des banques de ...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, agricultural researcher numbers have gradually fallen in Mali, but agricultural spending has remained stable, mainly as a result of the continuously adequate levels of donor funding. During 1991–2001, IER was ...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Mauritania’s agricultural researcher numbers have steadily increased, though in recent years increasing researcher numbers at IMROP mask decreasing researcher numbers at CNERV and CNRADA. Agricultural research ...

Historically, agricultural R&D in Mauritius has been funded through national sources. Sugarcane research is financed through a tax on sugar production, while nonsugarcane research is primarily funded by the national government. In 2008, ...

Total public agricultural R&D capacity in Mexico has gradually increased over the past two decades. In 2006, the country as a whole employed more than 4,000 fte agricultural research staff, making it the second largest agricultural R&D ...

Os níveis de capacidade institucional de I&D de Moçambique aumentaram entre 2004 e 2008, sobretudo nas instituições governamentais. Contudo, o desenvolvimento dos dos recursos humanos e formação ainda constituem as maiores necessidades em ...

Since the beginning of the 1980s, agricultural researcher numbers in Morocco have steadily risen. Agricultural R&D spending followed a more erratic trend in response to fluctuations in national government funding and (foreign) donor support, ...

The number of fte researchers employed in agriculture in Myanmar increased gradually during 1996–2003, but real spending on agricultural R&D declined. In 2003, Myanmar invested just 8 million dollars in 2000 international prices on ...

The 2002 completion of AREP, a World Bank–financed project, led to a sharp decline in Nepal’s agricultural R&D investment levels. Although spending rebounded somewhat during 2003–09, total agricultural R&D expenditures remain below the ...

Avec un taux qui, en 2008, ne dépassait pas 0,25 % de son PIBA, le Niger se classe parmi les pays africains qui investissent le moins dans la recherche agricole. En effet, en 2008, les dépenses consacrées à la R&D agricole avaient chuté de 80 ...

Total agricultural researcher numbers in Niger rose steadily until the mid-1990s, after which they contracted slightly. The country’s agricultural R&D expenditures showed an erratic upward trend until 1998, but fell drastically with the ...

In the three decades to 2000, agricultural research in Nigeria was characterized by institutional instability, declining funding availability, and general uncertainty. After a few years of growth in the early 1970s, total spending fell by ...

Total fte agricultural researcher numbers in PNG rose steadily until 2001 and thereafter contracted as a result of restructuring and retrenchment of less productive staff. The country’s agricultural R&D expenditures followed a more erratic ...

In 2006, Paraguay employed just 128 fte researchers and spent $13 million (in 2005 PPP prices) on agricultural research. The country compares very unfavorably to its MERCOSUR neighbors when it comes to agricultural research capacity and ...

The civil wars that shook Congo in the 1990s caused agricultural research investments to plummet. However, with the return of peace and the modest inflow of donor funding, agricultural R&D spending levels picked up again, albeit slightly. In ...

Rwandan agricultural research agencies have been restored since the first half of the 1990s, but challenges still remain. Agricultural research capacity grew modestly between 2005 and 2009, from 100 to 116 FTEs. This growth mainly occurred in the ...

Au cours des dernières décennies, la R&D agricole du Sénégal a été en grande partie tributaire de l’aide accordée par ses bailleurs de fonds, notamment sous la forme des projets successifs dirigés par la Banque mondiale. L’affaiblissement du ...

Agricultural R&D expenditures in Senegal have fallen gradually since the mid-1980s. The cause of this decline is threefold: nationalization of agricultural research resulted in large numbers of expatriate researchers being replaced with less ...

Agricultural research and development (R&D) in Sierra Leone virtually ceased in the 1990s due to the ravages of civil war. Several researchers were killed by rebels, research facilities and equipment were destroyed or severely damaged, and ...

Public-sector financing remains the dominant source of funding, but—as in many countries—public funding has come under severe pressure in recent years. In the past five years, contributions to agricultural research funding by producer ...

During 1981-2003, the number of agricultural researchers in Sri Lanka increased steadily. Agricultural R&D spending also rose throughout this period, albeit more erratically. In 2003, total expenditures amounted to $60 million (in 2000 ...

Strengthening Sudan’s agricultural research system is a key component in addressing the country’s increasing food insecurity and poverty. Nevertheless, public agricultural R&D spending has decreased over the past 30 years because of declining ...

Agricultural research in Tanzania follows the regional pattern of high dependency on donor funding. Yet even with the high donor support, agricultural research investments per researcher and as a share of AgGDP remain very low, in part because ...

Total agricultural researcher numbers in The Gambia rose by nearly 50 percent during 1991–2001. This was mainly due to the establishment of NARI in 1993, and the associated recruitment of additional staff to fulfill the institute’s broader ...

In 2008, Togo’s investments in agricultural R&D totaled 2.1 billion CFA francs, or 8.9 million dollars (both in 2005 constant prices), which included all salaries, operating costs, and capital investments. During the past decade, funding for ...

Tunisia’s agricultural research system underwent important reforms over the past decade, facilitated by the national government’s commitment to the agricultural sector and important World Bank-support agricultural research and extension ...

Following the PMA framework NARO will need to narrow its mandate on noncommercial crops with the private sector becoming responsible for research on commercial crops. Until now, however, the producer organizations have not been very willing to ...

In 2006, Uruguay employed roughly 400 fte researchers and spent 848 million Uruguayan pesos (in current prices) on agricultural research. INIA’s funding structure is unique in Latin America in that it receives the proceeds of a commodity tax ...

Female farmers play a vital role in African agriculture, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of the agricultural workforce. However, agricultural research and higher education are disproportionately led by men. There is an urgent need for a greater ...

Zambia’s agricultural research sector has undergone significant reform in recent years in attempts to increase effectiveness, cut costs, build capacity, attract new sources of funding—especially from the private sector—and ultimately reach out to ...