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Figure 4. Composition of agriculture-specific spending in Mali, in %, average 2006-2010

Source: Authors, based on budgetary data collected by Institute of Rural Economy in Mali for the MAFAP project.

The agriculture-specific expenditure is complemented by agriculture-supportive expenditure which

accounts, on average, for about 30 percent of overall support to the food and agriculture sector in Mali.

Among agriculture-supportive measures, by far the largest expenditure is on rural infrastructure, and most

of that constitutes investments in rural roads (Figure 5). There is relatively little investment in rural water

and sanitation or rural energy; however, there is significant expenditure on rural health and education.

These proportions remained almost constant throughout the period analysed. It is important to note,

however, that about a third of agriculture-supportive spending falls into the “other” category. This latter

category combines all the agriculture-supportive measures for which there was not enough information

to be classified into the aforementioned categories. Ideally, additional information should be collected to

identify the appropriate spending categories for those measures. This could potentially show a significant

change in the relative importance of the categories within the agriculture-supportive measures.

Figure 5. Composition of agriculture-supportive spending in Mali, in %, average 2006-2010

Rural educaon

10%

Rural health

12%

Rural

infrastructure -

roads

39%

Rural

infrastructure -

water and

sanitaon

2%

Rural

infrastructure -

energy

1%

Rural

infrastructure -

other

0%

Other

36%

Source: Authors, based on budgetary data collected by Institute of Rural Economy in Mali for the MAFAP project.

Payments to

producers - input

subsidies

35%

Payments to

producers - income

support

1%

Payments to

consumers

Payments to processors 1%

2%

Payments to

traders

0%

Agricultural

research

3%

Technical

assistance

3%

Training

10%

Extension

1%

Inspecon

(veterinary/plant)

7%

Infrastructure

21%

Storage/public

stockholding

5%

Markeng

10%

Other

1%