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Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa’s Future
ASTI-IFPRI-FARA Conference
Accra, Ghana, December 5–7, 2011

This is the blog of the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative. ASTI compiles, analyzes, and publicizes data on institutional developments, investments, and capacity trends in agricultural R&D in low- and middle-income countries worldwide. ASTI comprises a network of national, regional, and international agricultural R&D agencies and is hosted and facilitated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). To find out more about the ASTI initiative click here. To comment on this blog, write to asti@cgiar.org.

The ASTI website (asti.cgiar.org) provides additional resources on agricultural R&D in developing countries, including:

• - Data tool that allows its users to display different ASTI indicators by country and plot two indicators against each other
• - Datasets, country briefs, regional reports, and analytical publications.
• - Country pages with additional data results, contact details and other information of all agricultural R&D agencies.