Launched today with a high-level webinar, the technical report delves into over 10 years of public expenditure data, revealing the trends, challenges and priorities that governments in sub-Saharan Africa are facing in terms of public spending on food and agriculture.

MAFAP will host a special webinar to mark the launch of a new report on public expenditure on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers include FAO DG, FAO Chief Economist, the IMF, the EU and AGRA and will be moderated by the BBC's Bola Mosuro.

In a guest blog for Africa at LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), we set out four policy tools for African leaders to better prioritise and plan food and agriculture policy in 2021.

The UN's French language radio and online news service - ONU Info - interviews economists from MAFAP and the Burkina Faso Ministry of Agriculture about investment options for the sector to boost food security and agricultural transformation.

The BBC's World Service interviewed MAFAP Manager Christian Derlagen on spending and investment priorities for agriculture in Burkina Faso. How much does the West African country spend on agriculture and what difference would greater investment more bring to the sector and society?

The MAFAP Programme has signed a Letter of Agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture of Bangladesh to carry out economic analyses for three commodities, identify policy reform options to address bottlenecks in current policy and provide trainings to ministry employees.