FAO and national stakeholders review and validate data and preliminary findings on food and agriculture spending and price-incentives for coffee, tea, rice, milk, wheat, and Irish potato during a three-day workshop in Musanze.

The MAFAP team, in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), convened a high-level workshop in Dhaka to assess and validate initial findings from a policy analysis of the agriculture sector.

Government officials and technical experts in Maputo validate preliminary findings on public expenditure for the last 16 years to support the country’s new agrifood strategy and investment planning.

Public-expenditure analysis and scenarios for optimal allocations across policies, investments and programmes in agriculture to maximize economic, social and environmental benefits helped guide the allocation of over one-third of the budget plan for agrifood investments in 2026–2027 in Nigeria's new National Agrifood Systems Investment Plan (NASIP).

Two-day meeting in Rome reviews Phase III progress on policy monitoring, policy reforms and future priorities for 2026–2027.

At a regional knowledge exchange in Addis Ababa, the MAFAP programme shared policy-monitoring evidence and insights from its recent sorghum price incentives analysis to support policy coherence and inform the repurposing of agricultural support.

Multi-ministerial task force prepares next agrarian sector strategy and investment using regional guidelines and FAO's Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT).

Maputo ministerial meeting focused on priorities for the Strategic Plan for Agrarian Sector Development (PEDSA) 2026–2035 and the National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNISA III) 2026–2030, as well as on how innovative tools such as the Policy Optimization Tool could support their implementation.

At Ouagadougou workshop, the country's exports promotion agency, APEX-Burkina, draws on MAFAP analysis to identify priority export commodities.

The FAO Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, with the support of the FAO Representation in Burkina Faso, convened a workshop in Ouagadougou on 16 December to present and discuss preliminary policy-monitoring findings on government spending on foo...

Mission builds momentum in Kigali with key ministries and amplifies regional awareness of PolOpT at the Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ANAPRI) 2025 Stakeholder's Conference.

The MAFAP team in Maputo presented its proposal for a price-setting mechanism, highlighting the need for stronger policy coherence, transparent pricing, and fair margin distribution across Mozambique’s cashew value chain.

Field missions across Rwanda’s tea-growing districts engaged farmers, cooperatives, and factory managers to inform a more inclusive and evidence-based national strategy.

At the Collaborative Partnership on Forests event, FAO highlights how optimizing government spending on food and agriculture can also support land restoration efforts and sustainable land management across Southern Africa.

High-level meetings introduce FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) in Maputo.

Key stakeholders meet to define and agree on approaches to boost production, quality, processing, and export of Rwandan tea. 

FAO's MAFAP programme, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, officially launches the Nigeria Food and Agriculture Policy Monitoring Review at a high-level event in Abuja. The report is expected to guide policymaking ahead of the country's new National Agricultural Investment Plan. Read more.

Nigerian policymakers shown how FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) could help Nigeria to maximize socioeconomic and environmental wins from federal spending.

Kasim Ggombe, PhD, is the latest addition to the MAFAP team, and will be in charge of the programme's activities and policy engagement in Uganda. 

FAO and national partners comb through nutrition-sensitive public spending data to finalize analysis and validate the findings.