New MAFAP report out on public expenditure on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
The new MAFAP report, 'Public expenditure on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: trends, challenges and priorities', was officially launched today by a high-level webinar opened by the FAO Director General and featuring a host of experts in agricultural development economics.
This report tracks and analyses the level and composition of public expenditure on food and agriculture in thirteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa throughout 2004–2018.
It covers Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, is the only such initiative in the region, revealing the top trends and current challenges in government spending on food and agriculture along the way.
The report dives into detail, analysing the level of spending and how it is allocated, as well as the effectiveness of such spending in relation to agricultural performance in all 13 countries. The report also presents several country case studies that have benefited from better monitoring and analysis of spending. As both a technical and policy report, it has a dedicated section on Covid-19 and a set of priorities and recommendations by FAO's Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme for future public expenditure policymaking on food and agriculture in the region.
Read the report here.