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Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP)

Agricultural Development Economics Thematic Brief

Year of publication 2016

Pages 2p.

Author Agricultural Development Economics Division

Publisher FAO ;

Category Technical brief

Series title Agricultural Development Economics Thematic Brief

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Since the 1970s, FAO has helped governments measure the effects of their policies on agricultural producers and other value chain actors. FAO’s Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) starts in 2010. The programme assists the development of sustainable policy monitoring systems in developing countries. These systems aim to provide reliable information for evidence-based policy dialogue and decisionmaking at the national, regional and international levels. Such information is already being used by policy-makers to reform policies and address the challenges they face. FAO has successfully partnered with government institutions and research organizations in several African countries, to create policy monitoring systems and to carry out a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains (MAFAP phase I).

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