Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Phonepaseuth Vongsipasom, Norah Omot, Nguyen Thi Pham, Alejandro Nin-Pratt, and Bounthong Bouahom
Year:
2019
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute; Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions; and National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute.
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The Laos country brief presents key agricultural R&D indicators in a highly accessible visual display. The brief also features more in-depth analysis of some of the key challenges that the country’s agricultural R&D systems are facing, and the policy options to address these challenges. It presents various future agricultural research investment scenarios and how these are projected to affect agricultural productivity growth.
Authors:
Stads, Gert-Jan; Manivong, Khamphay
Year:
2006
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI)
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Overall, agricultural researcher totals in Laos increased during 1998–2003, while the country’s agricultural R&D expenditures followed a more irregular trend. With the creation of NAFRI in 1999 through the amalgamation of the country’s nine existing research centers, total agricultural research spending grew immediately. It nevertheless dropped sharply in subsequent years and by 2003 had fallen 60 percent below its 1999 level (to $11 million in 2000 international dollars). This decline was less severe, however, when expressed in current Lao kip.