Research Areas
Policy & InstitutionsCountries
Argentina, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo Rep., Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zambia, ZimbabweTimeline
Start Date: 1 January 2004 | End Date: 30 June 2011Overview
The ASTI initiative compiles, processes, analyzes, and publicizes data on institutional developments, investments, and capacity in agricultural R&D at national, regional, and global levels. The initiative collects substantial original data focused on low- and middle-income countries, as well as maintaining access to relevant developed-country data for comparative purposes. The initiative is generally recognized as the authoritative source of information on the structure, financing, and capacity of agricultural R&D worldwide.
The initiative has established successful collaborations with numerous regional and subregional organizations in Africa as well as Asia, Middle East, and Latin America to facilitate the initiation of national surveys. Since 2001, ASTI has published a broad set of country briefs and regional synthesis reports, which have been cited widely in national and international agricultural research policy documents. See the ASTI website at www.asti.cgiar.org
Research Partners
- Government
- Department of Research and Development (DRD) - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security - Tanzania
- Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy (SLCARP)
- NARI - National Agricultural Research Institute
- Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Sudan
- Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa
- Centre National d’Élevage et de Recherches Vétérinaires (CNERV) - Mauritania
- Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Développement Rural (FOFIFA) - Madagascar
- Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA) - Cote d’Ivoire
- Department of Agricultural Research (DAR), Botswana
- Directorat General e Recherche Scientifique et Technique (DGRST), Republic of Congo
- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
- Farm and Infrastructure Foundation (FIF), Nigeria
- Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC), Mauritius
- Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER), Mali
- Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso
- Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG), Guinea
- Institut de Recherches Agronomiques du Niger (INRAN), Niger
- Institut de Recherches Agronomiques et Forestieres (IRAF), Gabon
- Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU)
- Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Rwanda (ISAR), Rwanda
- Institut National de Recherche Agricole du Bénin (INRAB), Benin
- Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA)
- Institut Togolais de Recherche (ITRA), Togo
- Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM)
- Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
- National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Eritrea
- National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Gambia
- Pakistan Agricultural Research Center (PARC), Pakistan
- Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI), Ghana
- Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI), Sierra Leone
- RO - Regional Organization
- Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
- SRO - Sub-Regional Organization
- West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD)
- University
- Department of Agricultural Economic, Extension and Rural Development- University of Pretoria
- University of Pretoria, South Africa
