Key Trends from the 2004 country brief

• Agricultural research financing and expenditure growth in Ghana stagnated during the 1990s, although the number of researchers gradually increased.
• The agricultural research agencies of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) accounted for about two-thirds of Ghana’s total spending and research staff in 2001.
• Although the government legislated that by 2001 CSIR agencies should derive 30 percent of their budget from private sources, only the Oil Palm Research Institute (OPRI) reached this goal. Socially oriented agencies under CSIR are significantly less well-placed to generate their own funds than the more commercially oriented agencies.
• Government and donor contributions remain the primary sources of funding for agricultural research in Ghana.
• Private-sector involvement in agricultural research is minimal.

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