Key Trends from the 2004 country brief

• Total agricultural R&D expenditures and funding declined steadily throughout the 1990s, while researcher numbers remained relatively stable.
• The main agricultural R&D agency is the Togolese Agricultural Research Institute (ITRA), accounting for more than three-quarters of the country’s expenditures in 2001 and nearly 60 percent of its agricultural researchers.
• The Togolese agricultural sector was significantly restructured under the National Agricultural Services Support Project (PNASA), culminating in the formation of ITRA in 1997. ITRA was largely dependent on PNASA funding, which was drawn predominantly from World Bank loans.
• The future of ITRA’s funding remains uncertain with the end of PNASA in 2003. Many research programs have been cut, and only projects funded by regional networks have adequate funding.

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