The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, within the Agrifood Economics and Policy Division at FAO, is a leading policy support initiative that has been working since 2009 with mainly African countries to strategically prioritize, reform and implement agrifood policies for inclusive agricultural transformation.
MAFAP does this by supporting governments with agrifood policy monitoring on public expenditure on food and agriculture and price incentives for key country commodities, with policy prioritization to optimise their public budgets and prioritize their investments in commodities, and with agrifood policy reforms to address issues on food and nutrition, pricing, marketing, strategy development and trade.
Countries where MAFAP is providing support
Videos
News
MAFAP presents its policy monitoring work at African Economic Research Consortium
24/05/2024
MAFAP team gathers in Rome with donor Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to chart path forward for 2024
15/03/2024
The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) team met with representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) at FAO’s headquarters on 12 and 13 March 2024 for a programme-donor retreat to take stock of ongoing work, learn about new lines of economic pol...
Publications
Fair prices for Irish potatoes in Rwanda - A new price-setting mechanism
29/04/2024
Rwanda is home to around 300 000 Irish potato smallholder farmers and is one of the top ten producers of Irish potatoes in Africa, with an estimated...
Identifying commodity-specific priority investments in selected districts of Uganda
10/05/2023
Building on the previous work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supporting the identification of priority agricultural...
Analysing beef price incentives to strengthen policies for production and exports in Uganda
13/03/2023
In Uganda, 58 percent of households depend on livestock for their livelihoods, with cattle being the most important livestock subsector in the country....
E-Learnings
Monitoring price incentives for food and agriculture: the MAFAP method
02/11/2021
Learn how policies influence prices at different stages of the value chain, such as at producer, wholesale and retail level, is fundamental to determine...
Monitoring public expenditure on food and agriculture: the MAFAP method
02/11/2021
Learn how public spending on food and agriculture is a critical to better understand agricultural public expenditure and how it affects agricultural...
Related links
- FAO Agrifood Economics and Policy Division
- Ag-Incentives Consortium
- FAO Policy Support and Governance Gateway
- IDB | Agrimonitor
- OECD | PSE database
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Contact
Marco V. Sánchez
Deputy Director
Agrifood Economics and Policy Division & Officer-in-Charge MAFAP