Policy Optimization Modelling Tool (PolOpT) generates strong interest among African stakeholders during regional livestock conference. MAFAP team set to support Kenya’s fertilizer subsidy evaluation and play a role in FAO-IFAD’s Food Systems Integrated Programme.

The MAFAP programme has been supporting the Cotton and Oilseeds Institute (IAOM) to align oilseeds prices and farmers' incentives with exports promotion, domestic production and value addition policy goals.

Workshop in Accra brought together over 30 officials from several government bodies. Find out some key insights from the review.

Updates include new data on key commodities for Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal, as well as new data on public expenditure on food and agriculture in Malawi and Rwanda up to 2023.

Kjersti Nes, PhD, will be supporting the MAFAP team on technical analyses and methodologies.

Workshop in the capital Dhaka engaged national stakeholders in validating public expenditure data to support more effective “nutrition-sensitive” investments in Bangladesh’s agrifood sector to promote healthy diets.

Policymakers and experts gather in Dhaka to track public expenditure and investments in food and agriculture and understand pathways to optimize them for agricultural transformation.

A yearly meeting to review of progress, challenges, and future strategies for inclusive agricultural policy reform took place on 12 and 13 March 2025.

Over 4 days, the MAFAP team has trained government workers in Koudougou on policy analysis and validated data on public spending on food and agriculture and on price incentives for 9 key commodities.

Ahead of the GEF’s next funding cycle, GEF-9, Marco V. Sánchez joined environmental experts in Washington, DC to table the tool as powerful way to support countries in tracking and optimizing public spending on agrifood systems, climate action, and biodiversity in drive for better policy coherence.

Zewdu joined the MAFAP team in mid-February to continue the programme's line of work in Ethiopia.

The project, under FAO’s Flexible Voluntary Contribution mechanism, brings together FAO, the Government of Ghana, and academia to analyse spending for better nutrition. 

Around 60 international experts gathered in Istanbul, Türkiye, to discuss challenges and innovations in wheat and mazie production systems, as part of the World Bank's Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Programme regional dialogue.

Meizal will help drive the programme's policy support and engagement in Maputo. 

Ugandan officials trained on policy-monitoring indicators as stakeholders shape key findings on public spending and price incentives for 7 strategic commodities.

Labour productivity in the agricultural sector faces a number of binding constraints including  land access, uncertain markets, volatile prices, inadequate farmer training, limited infrastructure, and technology uptake. 

FAO and Ugandan government ministries meet in Mukono to discuss a new agricultural marketing strategy for the country under the Parish Development Model

FAO’s Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, in collaboration with Rwanda's Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), organized a national workshop in Bugesera to validate key findings from a set of policy-monitoring analyses for the country's ...

Onil Banerjee and Renato Vargas have recently joined the team to strengthen MAFAP's policy optimization modelling portfolio, focusing their efforts on integrating climate change and biodiversity objectives to the economy-wide tool, while MAFAP Policy Analyst Alethia Cameron has been promoted to Economist to lead the programme's policy monitoring work. 

Weeklong workshop is taking place in the centre-west region in a bid to boost the country’s exports.