The East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization

Abstract

The headquarters and a laboratory of the East and Forestry Research Organization at Kikuyu, Kenya, formally opened by the Right Hon. James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, during his recent visit to East Africa, were built with money provided from the research allocation of the funds made available by the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts. Although neither the initiation nor the stimulation of research into colonial problems are new ideas in British Colonial policy the work of the Imperial Institute and of the short-lived Empire Marketing Board affords evidence of this the idea of regional research organizations serving a group of contiguous Colonies is a relatively new conception. The British Colonies lend themselves to this idea, forming such obvious groups as Malaya, West, East, and Central Africa, and the West Indies. The Colonies within a group have many common problems, and it is obviously more efficient and more economical of men and money to conduct on a regional basis the researches required.