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Financed principally by an endowment provided by the countries of the Americas, and managed
directly by the same countries, the Regional Fund¿s overarching goal is to promote the
competitiveness of the rural sector in ways that contribute to poverty reduction and the
sustainable management of the resource base. Specific approaches being taken by the Fund to
support this goal are to:
· Add a permanent flow of new resources for regional agricultural research;
· Accelerate applied research at the national level by supplying public goods-type
technologies of cross-country relevance;
· Promote research cooperation and collaboration among organizations at the national and
regional levels, and as between the Americas (especially LAC) and international
agricultural research organizations; and enhance the innovation, quality, and impact (the
economic returns) of research investments through a sharp focus on priority topics, the
use of competitive project funding procedures which are fully transparent, and attention
to the design of research-related policies and institutional strengthening

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