Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Hoda Moussa, and Raed Badwan
Year:
2015
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute and Agricultural Research Center.
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With more than 8,400 agricultural researchers in FTEs—most qualified to the PhD degree level—Egypt’s agricultural R&D system is among the world’s largest in terms of human resource capacity; of these researchers, three-quarters are employed at the country’s principal agricultural R&D agency, ARC.
Agricultural R&D spending grew by nearly a quarter during 2009–2012, mostly driven by higher salary- related expenses following large-scale staff recruitment by ARC.