Linkages betweeen agricultural research and agro-industries in Africa : the case of Ethiopia

The Government of Ethiopia drew up a long-term industrial strategy in 1994

known as Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization (ADLI). The

Government is convinced that agriculture is the engine that can propel the

socio-economic development of Ethiopia by providing the basis for

industrialization and necessary surplus for the expansion of other sectors of

the economy. The ADLI strategy gives priority to the development of

agriculture as a primary stimulus for the sustainable growth of agro-industry

and is expected to raise productivity in both agriculture and agro-industry

through appropriate linkages between the two sectors, management,

technology, human resources and various incentive mechanisms.