Costa Rica: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet
Costa Rica has the largest agricultural research system in Central America, both in terms of investment and human resource capacity. Costa Rica stands out from other Central American countries in that its higher education section plays a preponderant role in the country’s agricultural research syste...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2022
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| author | Stads, Gert-Jan de los Santos, Luis |
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| description | Costa Rica has the largest agricultural research system in Central America, both in terms of investment and human resource capacity. Costa Rica stands out from other Central American countries in that its higher education section plays a preponderant role in the country’s agricultural research system. Despite spending more than other Central American on agricultural R&D in absolute terms, Costa Rica’s investment levels relative to agricultural GDP rank second in the region behind Panama. In 2020, Costa Rica spent 0.87 percent of its agricultural GDP on agricultural R&D, which was lower than ratios recorded a decade earlier. Costa Rica’s agricultural research capacity has gradually increased over the past decade. The rise in researcher numbers was largely driven by INTA, which recruited a considerable number of young, BSc-qualified researchers after a prolonged period of civil servant recruitment restrictions and the loss of senior scientists to retirement. INTA still lacks a critical mass of PhD-qualified researchers compared to the higher education sector.
This factsheet was originally published and translated in 2015 and updated in 2022. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1408612025-11-06T05:36:04Z Costa Rica: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet Stads, Gert-Jan de los Santos, Luis research methods funding gender research support commodities stakeholders agricultural policies agricultural research agriculture financing Costa Rica has the largest agricultural research system in Central America, both in terms of investment and human resource capacity. Costa Rica stands out from other Central American countries in that its higher education section plays a preponderant role in the country’s agricultural research system. Despite spending more than other Central American on agricultural R&D in absolute terms, Costa Rica’s investment levels relative to agricultural GDP rank second in the region behind Panama. In 2020, Costa Rica spent 0.87 percent of its agricultural GDP on agricultural R&D, which was lower than ratios recorded a decade earlier. Costa Rica’s agricultural research capacity has gradually increased over the past decade. The rise in researcher numbers was largely driven by INTA, which recruited a considerable number of young, BSc-qualified researchers after a prolonged period of civil servant recruitment restrictions and the loss of senior scientists to retirement. INTA still lacks a critical mass of PhD-qualified researchers compared to the higher education sector. This factsheet was originally published and translated in 2015 and updated in 2022. 2022-11-16 2024-04-12T13:36:46Z 2024-04-12T13:36:46Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140861 en es Open Access application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Inter-American Development Bank Stads, Gert-Jan; and de los Santos, Luis. 2022. Costa Rica: Agricultural R&D indicators factsheet. Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140861 |
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