OVERVIEW: The overall objective of the NARS policy is to create an enabling environment for a vibrant agricultural research system that contributes effectively to national development.

The NARS policy’s guiding principles are inter alia: adherence to national goals, NARS vision and mission; scientific integrity and professional excellence; reaching out and empowering stakeholders; accountability, drive for results and realizing impact on the ground; decentralizing services and adopting the principle of subsidiarity; programmatic approach along value chains, partnership and competitive funding as organizing principles; creating and responding to market opportunities; integrating public funded research with research product delivery; mainstreaming social, human and environmental concerns as well as gender issues; and ensuring quality assurance of agricultural research services.