Policy Assistance

The Rome Declaration of the World Food Summit clearly stated that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic environment is the essential foundation of food security. The underlying commitments were to: (i) ensure an enabling political, social, and economic environment designed to create the best conditions for the eradication of poverty and for durable peace; (ii) implement policies aimed at eradicating poverty and inequality and improving physical and economic access by all, at all times, to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and safe food and its effective utilization; (iii) pursue participatory and sustainable food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural development policies and practices in high and low potential areas; and (iv) strive to ensure that food, agricultural trade and overall trade policies are conducive to fostering food security for all through a fair and market-oriented world trade system.

FAO provides Member Countries, at their request, with policy advice related to national development policies, programmes and strategies in the agricultural sector. In cooperation with other external partners in development, it assists Member Countries in the formulation or reformulation of policies and strategies aimed at creating a favourable economic environment for food security and agricultural and rural development, and in ensuring that agriculture is adequately considered in macro-economic adjustment programmes. FAO also assists countries in developing their national capacity in the field of policy analysis and formulation through policy training.

• Agricultural Policy Assistance (TCP)
  
• Policy Assistance on (new issue or priority) (TCP)
  

• Agricultural Policy Assistance (TCP)
  
• Building Capacity for Policy Analysis on Assessing the Competitiveness of COUNTRY X Agriculture and Food Processing Industry in the Context of EU accession (TCP)
  

• Policy Assistance Division
  
• FAO Regional Office for Europe - Policy Assistance Branch
  
• Trade in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  
• Ethics in Food and Agriculture