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26- Tho role and numlber of supp,orting staff should bejustified or rationalized.At the international level, FAO should sponsor an internationalworkshop on research in order to discuss m,eans toencourage under-developed nations to alloc&tte mrare financial resoursesfor research. In addition, deveLop,ed nations and internationalorganizations will be re,quested to support such efforts.In under-d,eveloped nati.ons, agricultural research is the last worrylo administrators.Such conference can also discuss a draft-proposal on " Nationaland International Involve'mrent in Research ,. Such documentwill rbe adopted by participating governmrents, funding afencies,and international institutes.We propose that each govêrnmert i,nvolved will allocatea minimum of L"/. of total agricultural gross production to research.At the samle time, IO"/" af the budget of developmental projectsdealing with agricul[ure should be devoted to naiional research.Thi's can be done through specific contraot hetween ihe fundingorga,nization and NARI. This rulo will be followed syst,ematicallyirrespective of the identity of the funding institutes, nationaior intenational.