Between 2005 and 2010, rice producers in Burkina Faso received higher prices than equivalent world prices, indicating that they faced price incentives.

Regulated cotton prices in Burkina Faso have led to higher domestic prices and incentives to production.

The Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) initiative will hold an East Africa Regional Workshop at the Naura Springs Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania on the 18th and 19th of September 2013.

Following the public launch of the Review of Food and Agricultural Policies in the United Republic of Tanzania 2005-2011 last August 21st in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian press has reflected the findings and recommendations...

On 21 August, the Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) initiative launched its "Review of Food and Agricultural Policies in the United Republic of Tanzania, 2005-2011" during an official ceremony in Dar es...

MAFAP published a new Policy Brief that focuses on incentives and disincentives to producers of rice in Tanzania. The analysis shows that rice producers in the United Republic of Tanzania received prices that were higher...

On the 23rd of September 2013, during the 4th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) that will take place in Yasmine Hammamet (Tunis), FAO’s initiative on Monitoring African Food and Agricultural...

After over three years of reviewing the effects of food and agriculture policies in Tanzania in the context of the Monitoring African Food and Agriculture Polices (MAFAP) project, a detailed report of findings will...

On June 11th 2013, the Tanzania MAFAP team presented the final draft of the MAFAP Country Report to the management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC) in Dar es Salaam.

The MAFAP project and its partners in Kenya held a National Policy Forum on May 23, 2013 at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute’s (KARI) headquarters in Nairobi.

A new policy brief shows that although cotton is a major export crop in the United Republic of Tanzania, domestic cotton farmers received lower prices than what they could have potentially obtained between 2005...

The Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) workshop gathered experiences from ten countries

A workshop to gather lessons learned after three years of monitoring the impact of food and agricultural policies in ten countries in Africa will take place in Addis Ababa from the 28th to the 30th...

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...

FAO will intensify its support to agricultural policy monitoring in Malawi through a new partnership between the MAFAP programme and 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.

Although the government supports cotton farmers by regulating prices, cotton producers in Mozambique 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.

On 20 April 2013, the preliminary results of the MAFAP project in the URT were presented to the Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Water.