Key Trends from the 2003 country brief

• Since the early 1990s, total investments in Ethiopian agricultural research have almost doubled. This is largely the result of increased government contributions and a World Bank loan.
• Nonetheless, the intensity of the country’s agricultural research investment efforts—research investments as a share of total agricultural GDP—remain far below the Sub-Saharan African average.
• The main agricultural research agency in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization (EARO), accounted for close to two-thirds of Ethiopia’s total research spending and staff in 2000.
• In addition to generating new agricultural technologies, EARO’s mandate includes the coordination of all of Ethiopia’s agricultural research activities.
• A few private companies conduct some agricultural research in Ethiopia, but their combined efforts are reportedly small.

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