LONG-TERM INVESTMENT AND CAPACITY PATTERNS IN AGRICULTURAL R&D

development (R&D) in Uganda quadrupled during 1995–2008, primarily as a result of increased donor and development bank funding, along with growth in government funding after 2005 to support increased stang and salary levels at the country’s main agricultural research agency, the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO). • After a period of decreasing agricultural research stang levels in Uganda due to sta losses at NARO in response to low salaries from 1999 and a hiring freeze during 2002–05, human resource capacity began to rebound in the mid-2000s. • Recent growth in agricultural research capacity at the country’s main higher education agency, Makerere University, has advanced the sector’s role in agricultural R&D in Uganda. • The role of nonprot organizations and private businesses—whether as a performer or a funder of agricultural research—is limited