AG RESEARCH III

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The Third Agricultural Research Project will strengthen Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (EMBRAPA) state research agencies' capacities to generate and disseminate technology which will contribute to sustained agricultural development in two distinct agroecological regions, the "legal Amazon" and the semi-arid Northeast. The five project components are: (i) technology generation; (ii) research support programs; (iii) technology transfer; (iv) institutional development; and (v) project impact assessment and special studies. The Third Agricultural Research Project will provide for: (a) investment costs for the above research programs; (b) technical assistance and staff training; and (c) incremental operating costs. Institutional strengthening will aim at consolidating procedures for research planning and monitoring by and within the various units and institutions belonging to the national cooperative agricultural research system.