The MAFAP project and its partners in Kenya have organized an event which will bring policy makers together to discuss the impacts of policies and public spending on agriculture and food security on 23 May 2013 at the Conference Hall, Kenya Agricultural Research Organization (KARI).

The MAFAP partners in Uganda (MAAIF, NARO and EPRC) organized a consultative workshop to present a brief summary of the findings for a selected number of commodities and the findings of the analysis of public expenditure in support of agriculture in Uganda on 9 May, 2013 at Hotel Africana, Kampala, Uganda.

La FAO va intensifier son soutien au suivi des politiques agricoles au Malawi à travers un nouveau partenariat entre le programme SPAAA et le Bunda College.

Two members of the MAFAP Secretariat recently went to Ghana for a mission with the two MAFAP partners, the Ministry of Agriculture’s PPMED and the research institute CSIR-STEPRI.

Rice farmers in Mali receive prices that are lower than international reference prices.

Import tariffs and costly import procedures may explain why consumers in the United Republic of Tanzania pay relatively high prices for wheat.