Key Trends from the 2008 ASTI regional report on Central America

• In 2006, Guatemala employed 102 fte researchers and spent $8 million (in 2005 PPP prices).
• Total agricultural R&D capacity and spending fell sharply during 1991-2006 due to severe retrenchments at ICTA, the country's national agricultural research institute.
• At 0.06% in 2006, Guatemala's agricultural research intensity ratio (total public agricultural R&D spending as a share of agricultural GDP) is among the world's lowest.
• Producer organizations play an important role in financing agricultural R&D in Guatemala.

Guatemala

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