Key Trends Since 2000

• Zambia’s historical trend of declining public agricultural research and development (R&D) investments continued during 2001–08 due to weakened government and donor support. • The country’s agricultural research capacity also deteriorated during 2001–06, both in terms of numbers of full-time equivalent researchers and levels of educational qualications. This can largely be attributed to a government-sector hiring freeze during 2002–07, after which sta numbers once again began to rise, but predominantly in the category of junior (BSc-qualied) sta. • The most signicant institutional change in Zambia’s publi