Food and agricultural policy trends after the 2008 food security crisis: renewed attention to agricultural development

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Resources for policy making APPLIED WORK EASYPol Module 125 About FAO's FAPDA Food and agriculture policy decision analysis [FAPDA] is the process of collecting, registering, classifying and finally analyzing policy information. FAPDA web-based tool allows users to directly and effectively record and analyze policy decisions and make policy information available to the public. This system is used to monitor policy decisions taken by more than 80 countries and produces biennial global policy publication. See more on FAPDA: • Initiative on Soaring Food Prices: Country Responses to the Food Security Crisis. Nature and Preliminary Implications of the Policies Pursued • FAPDA tool About EASYPol EASYPol is a multilingual repository of freely downloadable resources for policy making in agriculture, rural development and food security. The EASYPol home page is available at: www.fao.org/easypol. These resources focus on policy findings, methodological tools and capacity development. The site is maintained by FAO's Policy Assistance Support Service.