The Agriculture Research Fund: Competitive Research Grants Programme

Abstract

The agricultural scientific community in Kenya is much larger than the scientific community within the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARl). The need to involve the larger scientific community in agricultural research and development was identified during the reorganization and rationalization of the agricultural research system in 1986. Consequently, the Agricultural Research Fund (ARF) was established as a discrete entity within KARl to provide a mechanism through which scientists from other institutions (both public and private) as well as individual scientists can complement and/or supplement KARl efforts in agricultural research. The ARF is managed, on behalf of the KARl Board of Management, by the Research Fund Management Committee (RFMC).