After a period of coordination of agricultural research under National Agricultural Research Coordinating Council (NARCC), the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) established the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) through the SLARI Act of Parliament of 2007. SLARI is now the agricultural research and agricultural technology generating body for the benefit of the farming, fishing and forestry sectors and to provide for other related matters. When fully operational, SLARI will be expected to have the following seven research centres:
SLARI’s Mandate and Core Functions
SLARI has a major role to play in addressing the many challenges facing the agriculture, fishery and forestry sub sectors in the country. As the national agricultural research institution, it is expected to conduct research to obtain knowledge, information and technologies needed for sustainable development of the country’s agricultural sector. The core functions of SLARI are defined in the SLARI Act of 2007. These provide SLARI and its research centres with a clear framework for delivering on its mandate. The core functions include:
The Strategic Vision
The SLARI guiding Vision that requires the Institute and its stakeholders and partners to stretch their future expectations, aspirations and performance is to see “Improved and sustainable broad-based agricultural growth”.
The Mission Statement
The Mission statement that expresses the fundamental purpose and business of SLARI is “To enhance sustainable productivity, commercialization and competitiveness of the agricultural sector through generation and promotion of innovative agricultural technologies and empowerment of stakeholders”.
Guiding Core Values
Decisions and actions in SLARI are consistently based on a set of clear principles outlined here as the institutional Guiding Core Values. The institutional Core Values guide actions at all levels when choices are not clear or when there is a gap between intention and reality. The Institutional Guiding Core Values that SLARI and its stakeholders and partners hold in common and endeavour to put into practice while performing their functional obligations include the following:
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