Funding was sufficient to follow the central system plan as laid out in the Technical Advisory Committee’s initiatives, and most donor countries allowed funds to be spent without restrictions and in accordance with TAC’s directives. The World Bank faced financial crisis in the early 1990s and hence had to change the resource distribution scheme from donor of “last resort” to “matching grant” in respect of the CGIAR system. Since stakeholders in donor countries are concerned with their national interests, donors selected a particular region, research centre, programme or domestic research institution that matched their interests (Ekboir, 2009, World Bank Independent Evaluation Group, 2003). Some recent studies note that increasing the production of staple foods has not always contributed to poverty alleviation in developing countries, whereas integration into the global economy has contributed to poverty alleviation (IFAD, 2008, World Bank, 2005).