Sub-Saharan Africa's Plant Science Research Infrastructure Is Being Built on Donor Dependency — That Must Change

Structural critique of externally-funded agricultural research programs in low-income nations: the dependency the funding model creates, the priorities it distorts, and what a domestically-anchored alternative would look like.

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