New Developments

KEVEVAPI and KETRI

More recently, the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (KEVEVAPI) and the Kenya Tripanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI) have been integrated into KARI. The government has recognized the need to further strengthen its agricultural research system by placing these research centres under KARI to create an institutional framework to effectively manage, reorganise and consolidate agricultural research within the country.

KAPP

KARI envisages various shifts in its current research profile over the next twelve years, within the Kenya Agricultural Productivity Project (KAPP), to appropriately address its agenda in relation to:

· New developments in science, research and extension
· Funding opportunities and partnerships
· Technology invention, repacking, dissemination, adaptability and impact orientation

KARI has set up a secretariate to work with stakeholders to formulate the project plan beginning 2004.