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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSpending smarter on food and agriculture
Making public spending more effective with FAO's policy optimization tool
2024FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) empowers governments to reallocate their public budgets on food and agriculture, repurposing limited resources into powerful drivers of change to achieve more agricultural transformation, and better food security and nutrition in an era of tight fiscal constraints.PolOpT uses advanced modelling techniques to generate tailored country spending scenarios, showing governments and policymakers insights into optimizing spending across key areas like extension services, fertilizer subsidies, irrigation, mechanization, electrification, rural roads, R&D, and seed subsidies to maximize socioeconomic benefits.Tested in countries like Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda, PolOpT has shown remarkable potential: lifting hundreds of thousands of rural people out of poverty, creating thousands of rural jobs, making healthy diets affordable for millions, and boosting agrifood output by optimizing agrifood budgets.The tool doesn’t stop at socioeconomic transformation. In 2025, PolOpT will also integrate climate, biodiversity and land-restoration goals, reallocating agrifood spending to factor in global environmental commitments like the Paris Agreement, the Global Biodiversity Framework, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaption Plans, and efforts to combat desertification, among others. With PolOpT, governments can better navigate fiscal pressures on the public purse while achieving transformative impacts through smarter, more strategic spending on food and agriculture. -
Book (series)Repurposing agriculture's public budget to align healthy diets affordability and agricultural transformation objectives in Ethiopia
Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Agricultural transformation has been ongoing for decades in Ethiopia where the agenda to improve nutrition has also gained momentum. This paper assesses ways in which the government could coherently pursue the objectives of reducing the cost of the least cost healthy diet for Ethiopians and achieving faster inclusive agricultural transformation (IAT), for example by increasing agrifood output, creating rural off-farm employment and reducing rural poverty. The main finding is that pursuing IAT objectives also allows reducing the cost of the least-cost healthy diet. Ethiopian policymakers may consider repurposing the budget for agriculture to pursue IAT objectives as suggested in this paper in order to increase value for public money, not only in terms of agrifood output growth, job creation and poverty reduction, but also in terms of increasing the affordability of healthy diets. -
Policy briefSupporting agrifood systems transformation in Indonesia with governance innovation
Governance and policy support: Policy brief
2024Also available in:
No results found.This policy brief summarizes the background, evidence and insights from the innovative governance modelling and analysis work developed in Indonesia under the "Governance Innovation for Sustainable Development of Food Systems” subprogramme. In addition, the brief offers guiding points and recommendations to support Indonesia's agrifood systems transformation efforts.The FVC subprogramme was carried out between 2020 and 2023 with funds from FAO's Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC). Together with Indonesia's national agency for planning and the Ministry of Agriculture as co-convener, the subprogramme supported the Directorate for Food and Agriculture in the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) leading the consolidation and implementation of the agrifood systems transformation agenda, including the UNFSS follow-up.The modelling and analytical work was conducted by a pool of researchers from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (CAU), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The researchers elaborated their analysis on the concrete priorities of the country and provided insights about the agrifood systems’ performance, mapping synergies and potential trade-offs across identified interventions. The information package included an examination of the interests, roles, and contributions of stakeholders, allowing for the identification of alliances and coordination needed to ensure the coordination needed to ensure the political feasibility of their agrifood systems transformation plans.
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