The MAFAP programme is currently working to support five agrifood policy reforms in the country.

The Monitoring, Prioritizing and Optimizing Public Investments in the Agrifood Sector for Greater Socioeconomic Impact in Ghana workshop brought together over 35 representatives from government institutions to engage with policymakers on new economic analyses.

The MAFAP team had the opportunity to discuss the programme with a Gates Foundation delegation visiting Rome for meetings at FAO and Rome-based agencies.

Over a dozen staff from various ministries and institutions benefitted from in-person training on MAFAP’s policy-monitoring tools as part of a three-day upskilling workshop.

The team in Nigeria and Deputy Director for Agrifood Economics and Policy at FAO held a number of high-level meetings with Nigerian policymakers as well as the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria and country heads of WFP and IFAD

FAO's Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, FAO in Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) organized a workshop on 6th June 2024 to discuss the findings from a series of policy analyses and to present a new economy-wid...

The MAFAP programme was invited to talk about data and policy monitoring during the Policy Analysis for Sustainable and Healthy Foods in African Retail Markets AERC workshop in Addis Ababa.

Three new colleagues have joined the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme! They are Clara Picanyol, Mahamoudou Koutou and Nada A. Elberry. Let's find out a bit more about the latest team members to join MAFAP.

The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) team met with representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) at FAO’s headquarters on 12 and 13 March 2024 for a programme-donor retreat to take stock of ongoing work, learn about new lines of economic pol...

The programme was tasked with helping Burkina Faso to diversity and prioritize its agricultural commodities for a new agrifood policy framework.

The programme closes the year having helped the governments of Bangladesh, Mozambique, Rwanda and Zimbabwe to reform a number of policies on food and agriculture, and has received 8 new requests for policy analysis throughout the year.

The team attended the Second Session of the Committee on Nuts at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to present an analysis of the cashew price formula to recommend possible areas for improvement.

MAFAP team held meetings with the Ministry of Planning and Development on support to its medium-term investment plan, as well as the Policy Studies Institute to partner with to understand nutrition-sensitive public expenditure on food and agriculture.

Preliminary results shown in Abuja reveal Nigeria’s public budget allocation to food and agriculture has consistently increased from around NGN (Nigeria naira) 322 billion in 2015 to over NGN 950 billion in 2021, representing around 6% of total national budget.

Two-day workshop held in Jinja on public expenditure review and knowledge exchange on the agriculture-forestry nexus.

Bilateral meetings held with several Ugandan Ministries, the National Planning Authority, and the World Bank, and training session delivered on commodity prioritization modelling

Economist Francisco Fontes presented the results of the analysis at the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries as part of a grains sector reform project for food security funded by the European Bank...

During FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in Rome, the MAFAP team and the delegation from Kenya discussed ongoing policy monitoring support and potential new areas to collaborate on

The MAFAP programme is looking for a new Manager (Senior Economist) and an Economist (Policy Modelling), deadline to apply is 26 September 2023