The ASTI initiative compiles, processes, and makes available data on institutional developments and investments in agricultural R&D worldwide, and analyzes and reports on these trends in the form of periodic policy digests. It entails a large amount of original and on-going survey work focused on developing countries.
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New project on gender-disaggregated capacity indicators

IFPRI’s Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative and the CGIAR’s Gender and Diversity (G&D) Program are jointly conducting a benchmarking survey to fill the gap in gender-disaggregated data on the staffing of African agricultural R&D agencies.
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Institutional context

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), has been the principal source of internationally comparable data and policy analyses on agricultural research systems for nearly two decades.

ASTI activities are led by the ISNAR division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a research centre of the CGIAR.