The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) team of the Agrifood Economics Division at FAO and the FAO Uganda Office held a high-level meeting on 29 March 2023 with officials from Uganda’s National Planning Authority (NPA) to present...

The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme of the Agrifood Economics Division at FAO was invited to attend and present findings on reference price formulas for soybean, sesame and sunflower seeds during the dissemination event of the...

Indicators on the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoAHD) developed under the technical leadership of the Agrifood Economics Division are now available for all countries on the Organization’s data hub, FAOSTAT, signalling a major step forward...

A two-day training in Nairobi on a policy monitoring methodology used by the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural policies (MAFAP) team of the Agrifood Economics Division at FAO has been held for officials working on the analysis of Kenya's...

The Agrifood Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Government of Uganda, have unveiled a package of economic reports to policymakers in Kampala in efforts to prioritize and repurpose future investments...

The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, which is housed in the Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) at FAO, has kicked off its new phase of technical and policy support together with the Government of Ethiopia.

Over the next...

The Economic and Policy Analysis of Climate Change team of the FAO Agrifood Economics Division co-organized with the Royal University of Bhutan the “International Conference on Agriculture in Bhutan: Building the bridge between present and future”, held in Lobesa,...

The new Shiny RIMA web-based tool is part of the framework of the resilience measurement and analyses conducted by the RIMA team in the Agrifood Economics Division, in which FAO has been at the forefront of efforts to measure resilience...

The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, an agricultural policy monitoring and analysis initiative within FAO’s Agrifood Economics Division (ESA), has been awarded a new 5-year grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, totalling USD...

Bioeconomy for sustainable food and agriculture

What does that mean?

It means using biological resources,* processes and innovations to help transform agrifood systems so that they are more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable, while supporting the development of a fair and green economy...