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Accelerating Inclusive Agricultural Transformation through Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evidence-Based Reform - MTF/GLO/543/BMG

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) An enabling policy environment is a key condition for agricultural development, food security and broader poverty reduction. Despite this, government policy analysts and decision makers in developing countries often lack the capacity to generate reliable and economically robust ex post evidence on, and ex ante assessments of, the impact of their policies on farmers, other local value chain actors, consumers and the wider economy. As a result, agricultural policies are often incoherent and inconsistent with the overarching agricultural sector goals stated in national strategies and investment plans. FAO has been implementing Phase I of the initiative Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP I) since 2009. In that time, it has successfully worked with national government policy analysts and policy makers to create policy monitoring systems and a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains in ten countries. Having identified and assessed in the first phase of the initiative some of the key policy constraints affecting agricultural producers, MAFAP II was designed to carry the process forward, while also supporting governments to develop options for reforming problematic policies, with a view to further incentivizing and serving value chain actors, in particular smallholder farmers.

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