Key Trends

• Total agricultural R&D spending in Uruguay rebounded rapidly after the 1999-2002 economic crisis, reaching $60 million (in 2005 PPP dollars) in 2006.   
• Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) and Universidad de la República (UdelaR) are Uruguay’s largest agricultural R&D agencies; combined, they account for more than three-quarters of the country’s agricultural research capacity
• INIA is largely financed through a commodity tax levied on Uruguay’s total sales value of agricultural commodities. The national government provides counterpart funding to INIA in direct proportion to the funds generated by this commodity tax.
• The private sector plays a negligible role in agricultural R&D in Uruguay.
• Overall, average qualification levels of Uruguayan agricultural R&D staff improved significantly during 1996–2006.

Uruguay

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