Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2023
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies in 54 countries, including the 38 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 11 emerging economies. It finds that support to agriculture has reached record levels amidst subsequent crises, although the increase in support has been less than the sector’s growth. After COVID-19, governments have taken significant action to limit the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the farming sector and markets.
This year’s report focuses on policies for climate-change adaptation and identifies close to 600 adaptation measures adopted by governments, but notes that more action is required to advance the implementation, monitoring and assessment of adaptation measures. The report also finds that most of the support for the sector comes in forms that reduce rather than enhance the sector’s capacity to adjust to future crises, including climate change. In line with the 2022 OECD Agriculture Ministerial Declaration, the report identifies key actions to focus policy efforts on improving agriculture and the food system’s resilience to successive shocks while also enhancing the sector’s environmental performance and productivity.
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Ukraine
Support to agricultural producers changed drastically in 2022 due to the large-scale military aggression of Russia against Ukraine. Ukraine entered a period of martial law on 24 February 2022, under which much state support for agriculture was diverted to security and defence. As a result, nearly all traditional support programmes were suspended in 2022, although some measures were introduced to sustain agricultural production during warfare. New measures included tax breaks, simplified regulatory procedures, and temporary financial support in the form of subsidies.
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