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2. Monitoring and analysing food and agricultural policies in Africa – Synthesis report 2013
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Ghana: Food and Agriculture Oranization of the United Nations
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12449
- Journal Title Details:
- 2013 Report
- Notes:
- 173 pages., The synthesis report by FAO’s Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) team, is the first ever attempt to systematically analyze agriculture and food security policies in several African countries, using common methodology over years. The report found that in the period between 2005 and 2010, the policy environment and performance of domestic markets depressed producer prices in the ten African countries analyzed, though the trend is improving. Most governments resorted to m arket and trade policies to protect consumers and keep food prices down in the reference period whilst budgetary transfers, were mainly been used to support producers. The report concludes that producer prices would improve significantly if inefficiencies in domestic value chains were eliminated through better targeted policies. These inefficiencies however seem to be increasing in all ten countries surveyed. The current MAFAP partner countries are: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mala wi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.