L'optimisation des dépenses publiques consacrées à l'alimentation et à l'agriculture peut changer la donne dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure

The document discusses the need for lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) and low-income countries (LICs) to optimize their limited public spending on food and agriculture. It highlights that many sub-Saharan African nations fail to meet the Maputo goal of allocating 10% of national budgets to these sectors and often employ trade policies that implicitly penalize farmers to protect poor consumers. To address this, the FAO's Policy Monitoring and Analysis of Food and Agriculture (SAPAA) program uses a Pareto-optimality tool to help governments reallocate budgets across measures such as irrigation, seed subsidies, and rural electrification. A study of six sub-Saharan African countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda) suggests that optimizing budgets for 2025-2030 could create nearly one million non-farm rural jobs, lift 2.8 million people out of poverty, and enable 16 million more people to afford a healthy diet by 2030 without increasing total spending.

• Many low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, do not provide sufficient public spending for food and agriculture and often use trade and market policies that keep national prices low, which implicitly penalizes the agricultural sector.
• Few sub-Saharan African countries have achieved the Maputo goal of allocating at least 10% of their national budget to food and agriculture.
• The FAO's policy optimization tool, based on Pareto optimality, aims to balance four primary policy objectives: maximizing agri-food GDP, maximizing non-farm rural employment, minimizing rural poverty, and minimizing the cost of a healthy diet.
• An analysis of six sub-Saharan African countries—Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda—indicates that budget reallocations for 2025-2030 could lead to significant gains without increasing the total budget.
• By 2030, optimized budget reallocations across the six studied countries could result in the creation of nearly one million non-farm rural jobs, 2.8 million people escaping poverty, and 16 million additional people being able to afford a healthy diet.
• Specific budget adjustments vary by country: Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria should increase spending on mechanization, while Ethiopia and Mozambique should increase seed subsidies; conversely, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda should spend less on irrigation.
• The FAO is currently enhancing its policy optimization tool to incorporate objectives related to biodiversity and climate change to help governments mitigate and adapt to climate change and reverse environmental degradation.

APA

Sánchez, M. V. (2024). L'optimisation des dépenses publiques consacrées à l'alimentation et à l'agriculture peut changer la donne dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/fr/articles/policy-analysis/optimizing-public-spending-food-agriculture

Chicago

Sánchez, Marco V. L'optimisation des dépenses publiques consacrées à l'alimentation et à l'agriculture peut changer la donne dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2024. https://www.iisd.org/fr/articles/policy-analysis/optimizing-public-spending-food-agriculture.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{snchez2024loptimisation, author = {Sánchez, Marco V.}, title = {{L'optimisation des dépenses publiques consacrées à l'alimentation et à l'agriculture peut changer la donne dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2024}, month = dec, url = {https://www.iisd.org/fr/articles/policy-analysis/optimizing-public-spending-food-agriculture}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }