This study reports a range of institutional indicators for 341 agricultural research agencies located in 39 African countries. University research has grown the most rapidly, but still accounted for only 10 percent of the total number of African researchers in 1991. We identified 86 networks, of which 72 involved Africans linked to Africans, a rather parochial strategy in an increasingly interdependent world. However, the political and economic realities of today bear little relationship to those of colonial times, and it remains unclear how these regional approaches will prosper and effect meaningful research given the organizational uncertainties that still abound. Download full-text discussion paper .
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