Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2018
This report is the 31st in the series of OECD reports that monitor and evaluate agricultural policies across countries, and the 6th report to include all 35 OECD countries, the 6 non-OECD EU Member States and a set of emerging economies: Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Ukraine and Viet Nam. This annual report is a unique source of up-to-date estimates of support to agriculture and uses a comprehensive system of measuring and classifying support to agriculture – the Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs and CSEs), the General Services Support Estimate (GSSE) and related indicators. These estimates provide insight into the increasingly complex nature of agricultural policy and serve as a basis for OECD’s agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation. Detailed data and documentation for the calculation of support are available on line www.oecd.org/agriculture/PSE.
Comprehensive country chapters and the Statistical Annex containing detailed background tables with indicators of agricultural support are available in electronic form at the publication website http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/agr_pol-2018-en.
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Transfers to producers (PSE) accounted for 80% of total support to the agricultural sector in 2015-17, with 11% directed to general services and 9% to provide direct budgetary subsidies to low-income food consumers. General services are focused on large irrigation infrastructure and agricultural knowledge systems – these areas absorbed 80% of total allocations for general services in 2015-17. Relative to agricultural value added, the financing for general services has slightly decreased since the mid-1990s.