Journal of Agricultural Economics: Repurposing Agricultural Budgets With Multiple Objectives and Fiscal Constraints: A Multicriteria Decision-Making Policy Tool Applied to Sub-Saharan African Countries

14/05/2026

Strengthening coffee traceability in Rwanda to boost trade compliance

01/04/2026

This policy brief outlines Rwanda’s efforts to integrate traceability into its coffee value chain. In recent years, increased emphasis has been placed on tracking and tracing transactions to meet export regulatory requirements and to monitor sector trends. Rwanda has now introduced a new digital public good – the Smart Kungahara System (SKS) – which enables end-to-end traceability across the coffee value chain. The system was developed with support from FAO.

Conference Paper for the100th Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society: Rethinking Africa’s target setting for agricultural public expenditure: Does quantity matter more than quality?

27/03/2026

African governments committed in 2014 to allocate 10% of public spending to agriculture to achieve 6% agricultural GDP growth. Using the Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT), this study shows that reaching these targets depends not only on spending more, but on spending better. Country-specific, evidence-based allocations can improve agricultural productivity, support healthier diets, and advance broader economic and environmental goals more effectively. Read more...

Analysis of price incentives for sorghum and other cereals in Ethiopia 2005–2024

18/02/2026

This report, requested by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture, will inform the forthcoming National Sorghum Flagship Programme. Sorghum is a key crop for food security, nutrition, and climate resilience in Ethiopia, yet its development potential remains largely untapped. Despite being cultivated by nearly five million farmers, making Ethiopia the world’s sixth-largest producer, sorghum yields and commercialization have stagnated due to persistent structural and policy-related constraints.

Public-expenditure analysis of the food and agriculture sector in Ghana 2016–2023. Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme.

30/12/2025

This report analyses Ghana’s public expenditure on food and agriculture from 2016 to 2023 using the FAO Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme indicators.

Dépenser plus intelligemment dans l'alimentation et l'agriculture – Rendre les dépenses publiques plus efficaces pour un triple bénéfice grâce à l'Outil d'optimisation des politiques (PolOpT) de la FAO. Deuxième édition

22/12/2025

Deuxième édition (2025) de l’aperçu de l’Outil d’optimisation des politiques de la FAO (PolOpT), qui permet aux gouvernements de réorienter leurs budgets alloués à l'alimentation et l'agriculture pour actionner les leviers d’accélération de la transformation agricole et améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle dans un contexte de contrainte budgétaire.

Boosting agrifood trade competitiveness – How an Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis can support countries in unlocking the potential of agrifood imports and exports

28/11/2025

The brochure presents the Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis as a tool for countries to pinpoint agrifood products with high potential for export growth or import substitution.

Invertir de forma más inteligente en la alimentación y la agricultura – Aumentando la eficiencia del gasto público para lograr un triple beneficio con la Herramienta de optimización de políticas (PolOpT) de la FAO (Segunda edición)

27/10/2025

La Herramienta de optimización de políticas (PolOpT) de la FAO permite a los gobiernos reasignar sus presupuestos públicos destinados a la alimentación y la agricultura, redirigiendo recursos limitados para convertirlos en poderosos motores de cambio que impulsen una mayor transformación agrícola y mejoren la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en una era de restricciones fiscales severas. Leer más...

Spending smarter on food and agriculture – Making public spending more effective with FAO's Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT). Second Edition, 2025

17/10/2025

This is the new, second edition brochure on FAO's Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) updated in 2025.

Nigeria food and agriculture policy monitoring review on federal public spending on food and agriculture and on price incentives for key country commodities

31/07/2025

This policy-monitoring review analyses Nigeria's public spending on food and agriculture (from 2015 to 2021) and on and price incentives for key food-security crops (maize, rice, sorghum) and major exports (cashew, cocoa) during the same time period. Findings stress the need to realign support with government priorities to implement the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Plan effectively and meet CAADP goals, as reaffirmed in the 2025 Kampala Declaration.