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["James BISCOE" <<address removed>>]

Jillian Lenne makes some good points about the current state of agricultural 
research vis a vis the UK and CGIAR.

I wonder if ways and means could be found whereby some of the available 
capacity (ie people) to which she refers could be usefully distributed to 
research organisations in developing countries on a longer than short term 
project contract basis in order to help develop the capacity of institutions in 
developing countries? while there are some centres of excellence I suspect that 
there are, (from the previous contributions and experience) many research and 
extension institutions which could benefit from some sustained middle level 
support? Of course just putting a person or two into an instituting is not a 
magic formula, they may need some additional support in terms of equipment, 
materials, access to current literature, etc, as tools of the trade? Has this 
approach been previously tried and found wanting in some important way?
Thanks
JAmes Biscoe
8/5/04
0930hrs