Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies

01/06/2023
MAFAP and AgrInvest will work on export competitiveness in latest push to boost dairy sector growth under the country’s Dairy Policy Action Plan
14/04/2023
Field mission focused on data and discussions on prices fetched by farmers and traders and the market-access costs incurred along the value chains
23/03/2023
The MAFAP team presents to stakeholders formulas to set reference prices as part of the dissemination of the new Oilseeds Regulation, which calls for a minimum reference price to be observed
16/03/2023
Nana Nkuingoua presented MAFAP’s latest analysis on beef price incentives at the 3rd Joint National Agricultural Research Organization and Makerere University’s Scientific Conference in Kampala
14/02/2023
The MAFAP team held two training sessions in Nairobi for officials from key institutions on public expenditure and price incentives analysis, as part of the launch activities for the 2022–2027 phase of MAFAP in Kenya...
07/02/2023
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, FAO Kenya and FAO’s Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies programme will monitor public spending in agriculture and effects of public policies on prices for farmers and producers...
20/12/2022
The team behind the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme reunited for the first time in Rome since the pandemic and the start of the 2021–2026 phase of the FAO policy support...
09/12/2022
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the MAFAP team hold joint workshop in Abuja to validate data collected for new public expenditure analysis
16/11/2022
A suite of economic studies by FAO, validated with experts of the Government of Uganda, shows modest but well prioritized investments in agriculture will benefit the economy, household wellbeing, and lower food prices, and reveals...
06/10/2022
The Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and MAFAP launched a project to support ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector
13/09/2022
The policy support programme begins a renewed 5-year partnership in Nigeria. MAFAP will assist with public expenditure and price incentives analyses and work on 2 agricultural policy reforms
05/08/2022
New third phase will encompass new areas of work, including the identification of policy and investment priorities with the highest impacts on inclusive agricultural transformation and support the implementation of the adopted policy reforms.
10/06/2022
Launch event in Ouagadougou gathered over 40 people from various ministries and government agencies on 9 June followed by two days of training on public expenditure and price incentives analysis, two pillars of MAFAP’s policy...
01/06/2022
Mission aims to pinpoint where post-harvest losses and waste occur and why, and identify high-potential technologies that can help cut loss and waste the most.
11/05/2022
The MAFAP team will jointly hold an international technical webinar with the FAO elearning Academy on policy monitoring analysis in a dedicated session to upskilling in public expenditure and price incentives.
14/04/2022
New analyses by MAFAP of milk farmers’ prices and milk collection centres to pave way for policy action and future investment.
10/03/2022
FAO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, representatives from Rwanda and Uganda, and global stakeholders are set to officially launch phase III of the leading policy support initiative in effort to boost inclusive agricultural transformation...
03/03/2022
A MAFAP study on prioritizing investment in high-potential sub-sectors was presented to government officials in Kampala in bid to boost agricultural production, well-being and reduce poverty in rural areas.
17/02/2022
Ghana will be part MAFAP III, a renewed 5-year policy support programme, to strategically prioritize, reform and implement policy change to the food and agriculture sector to speed up inclusive agricultural transformation.
16/11/2021
The two organizations held a training session focussing on the methodology to calculate post-harvest losses of maize in two provinces