Dhaka, March 20 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Bangladesh on Thursday hosted a high-level technical workshop in the city to lay the groundwork for a new portfolio of technical support aimed at accelerating the country's agricultural sector transformation.

This policy support leverages analytics from FAO's Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme to compile and monitor public expenditure in the food and agriculture sector and find ways to optimise such spending to accelerate Bangladesh's agricultural transformation programme (ATP).

The two-day workshop brought together government officials, policymakers and technical experts to share the prelimin...