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NPL
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Népal
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Nepal
DMP_ID
77
ASTI-Country
1
Main Agency Acronym(s)
NARC

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Authors:

Gert-Jan Stads, Hari K. Shrestha, Hira K. Manandhar, and Lang Gao

Year:

2015

Publisher

International Food Policy Research Institute and Nepal Agricultural Research Council

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Agricultural R&D investment and human resource capacity in Nepal grew in recent years in response to increased government funding; nevertheless, much more is needed to address the agricultural sector’s many critical challenges.        

NARC is by far the largest agency conducting agricultural R&D in Nepal, accounting for more than 80 percent of the country’s agricultural R&D investments and human resource capacity in 2012.      

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Authors:

Stads, Gert-Jan; Shrestha, Hari K.

Year:

2006

Publisher

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

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Overall, agricultural researcher numbers in Nepal increased during 1996–2003, while the country’s agricultural R&D expenditures followed a more irregular trend. Nepal’s principal agricultural R&D agency, NARC, was highly dependent on the World Bank-financed project AREP, which ran from 1998 until 2002. The closure of this project led to a sharp fall in the council’s and the country’s agricultural R&D spending, prompting the Nepalese government to increase its funding to NARC.

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