Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2020
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies spanning all six continents, including the 37 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 12 emerging economies. It is a unique source of up-to date estimates of support to agriculture using 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 – which provide insight into the increasingly complex nature of agricultural policy and serve as a basis for OECD’s agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation. Comprehensive country chapters and the Statistical Annex containing detailed background tables with indicators of agricultural support are available in electronic form on the publication website.
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Developments in agricultural policies and support
The key economic and market developments which provide the framework for the implementation of agricultural policies are analysed in the first section of this chapter. The next section presents the main recent changes and new initiatives in agricultural policies 2019-20 with a focus on environment and trade. A specific section focuses on emerging agriculture and food policy responses to the outbreak of COVID-19 implemented by the end of April 2020. This chapter also analyses the level and structure of agricultural support against the various policy objectives identified by governments, both for agriculture and the wider food system, including productivity and sustainability. The chapter concludes with the assessment of these developments and policy recommendations.
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