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MAFAP and Uganda’s Labour Ministry tackle labour productivity in the country's agricultural sector
27/11/2024
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.
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New agricultural marketing strategy under talks at MAFAP-Uganda workshop
26/11/2024
FAO and Ugandan government ministries meet in Mukono to discuss a new agricultural marketing strategy for the country under the Parish Development Model
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FAO and Rwandan Government validate agricultural policy insights at Bugesera workshop
01/11/2024
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 ...
MAFAP welcomes new economists and policy modellers to the team
29/10/2024
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.
MAFAP and Burkina Faso eye 10 high-potential commodities for exports push
24/10/2024
Weeklong workshop is taking place in the centre-west region in a bid to boost the country’s exports.