MAFAP team held meetings with the Ministry of Planning and Development on support to its medium-term investment plan, as well as the Policy Studies Institute to partner with to understand nutrition-sensitive public expenditure on food and agriculture.

FAO’s Agrifood Economics and Policy Division, through its MAFAP team, is working with FAO’s Food and Nutrition Division and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) to develop least-cost contextually appropriate healthy diets for subnational groups in Ethiopia.

Preliminary results shown in Abuja reveal Nigeria’s public budget allocation to food and agriculture has consistently increased from around NGN (Nigeria naira) 322 billion in 2015 to over NGN 950 billion in 2021, representing around 6% of total national budget.

Bilateral meetings held with several Ugandan Ministries, the National Planning Authority, and the World Bank, and training.session delivered on commodity prioritization modelling

Two-day workshop held in Jinja on public expenditure review and knowledge exchange on the agriculture-forestry nexus.

Economist Francisco Fontes presented the results of the analysis at the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries as part of a grains sector reform project for food security funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and implemented by the FAO Investment Centre