From 9 to 11 December, MAFAP experts supported Senegal’s Executive Secretariat of the National Food Security Council (SE-CNSA) to launch the Triennial Food Security Expenditure Planning Document (DPTSA) for the 2020-2022 period. This framework is expected to strengthen the coherence and effectiveness of Senegal’s government budget towards food security and the eradication of hunger.

Du 9 au 11 décembre, les experts du SAPAA ont appuyé le Secrétariat Exécutif du Conseil National de la Sécurité Alimentaire (SE-CNSA) du Sénégal lors de l’atelier de lancement du Document de Programmation Triennale des dépenses de Sécurité Alimentaire (DPTSA) pour la période 2020-2022. Le DPTSA vise à renforcer la cohérence et l’efficacité du budget que le gouvernement sénégalais déploie en faveur de la sécurité alimentaire et l’éradication de la faim.

The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has been promoting industrial development as a means of sustaining economic growth. Part of the country’s efforts to boost growth of the industrial sector is the development of Integrated Agro-Industrial Parks (IAIPs), which are expected to increase commercialization of agricultural products and accelerate the structural transformation of the economy. FAO is assisting the GoE with the preparation of comprehensive investment plans for each of the four pilot IAIPs in Ethiopia.

On Friday June 14th, 2019, the Monitoring and Analyzing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) project of FAO and the Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) hosted a seminar to share results of an economy-wide analysis of public agricultural expenditure and rural investment strategies in Ghana.

On 6 May, the FARM Foundation (Fondation pour l’agriculture et la ruralité dans le monde) launched a new initiative, the “Observatory of agricultural support in the world”, during a conference held at Crédit Agricole headquarters in Paris. The aim of the Observatory is to provide synthetic indicators and analytical tools for comparing, monitoring and evaluating the agricultural policies around the world, and particularly in Africa.

In October last year, the MAFAP programme accepted to assist the Mozambican Cotton Institute (IAM), which has extended its mandate to all other natural fibres, to develop its sisal subsector policy. As part of its technical assistance, MAFAP will focus on assessing the profitability of sisal in Mozambique, identifying policy priority areas and key opportunities and risks resulting from international and regional sisal trends.