Authors:
Kathleen Flaherty and Maleoa Mohloboli
Year:
2014
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute and Department of Agricultural Research.
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The national government provided almost all of the funding for agricultural R&D between 2009 and 2011; donor funding, although minimal, is still an important source of support for actual research activities.
From 2009 to 2011, agricultural R&D spending contracted by 34 percent as a result of declining government funding to DAR, the main agricultural research agency in the country.
The share of agricultural researchers qualified to the PhD-degree level in Lesotho, at only 9 percent, is one of the lowest in Africa; lack of funding and locally provided PhD programs constrain staff development.