Job Posting: 02/Dec/2025
Closure Date: 23/Dec/2025, 4:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: ESA
Job Type: Staff position
Type of Requisition: Professional Project
Grade Level: P-2
Primary Location: Italy-Rome
Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension
Post Number:
CCOG Code: 1L09
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FAO's commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.
Organizational Setting
The Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA) conducts economic research and policy analysis and provides evidence-based support to national, regional and global policy processes and initiatives related to monitoring and analysing food and agricultural policies, agribusiness and value chain development, rural transformation and poverty, food security and nutrition information and analysis, resilience, bioeconomy and climate-smart agriculture. The Division also leads the production of two FAO flagship publications: the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).
The The focus of the Policy Reform, Intelligence, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PRIME) team in ESA is to generate a quality evidence base for informed policy-making processes in FAO Member Countries. The PRIME group hosts the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, which seeks to establish country-owned and sustainable systems to monitor, analyse, and reform food and agricultural policies to enable more effective, efficient, and inclusive policy frameworks in eight developing and emerging economies. MAFAP works with government institutions, research organizations and other partners to create sustainable policy monitoring systems and carry out a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains. MAFAP analyses are used to inform targeted food and agricultural policy reforms that will result in a more conducive environment for agricultural investment and productivity growth, especially for smallholder farmers. PRIME seeks to extend these activities to more countries and to institutionalize this work in FAO, particularly within the AgIncentives Consortium initiative, which brings together agricultural policy indicators for almost 90 countries and 70 products over 14 years as a collaboration between FAO, Inter-American Development