Reforming agricultural policies to sustainably transform food systems
With global food systems facing various stresses—from the Russia Ukraine war to climate change—making them more resilient, health-promoting, and sustainable is more urgent than ever. A key tool in such a transformation is reforming agricultural policies and repurposing agricultural support.
Reorienting budgetary support to agriculture for climate change mitigation
Reforming and reorienting agricultural support, incentivizing agri-environmental practices, investments in research and innovation, and supporting farmers to adopt emissions reducing technologies are 4 essential pillars for long-term climate change mitigation.
Applying a combination of all these measures throughout OECD countries would yield a 5% low-cost reduction in emissions without adverse food security impacts. Expanding this globally would reduce emissions by 11%.
Agricultural subsidies on agenda for 2023 SOFA Report
Governments can pull different levers to adjust agrifood systems and drive better outcomes overall.
Taxes, subsidies, legislation and regulation are among them.
Information on Agricultural Policies Essential for Food System Performance
No one organization alone can track these policies worldwide so IFPRI, FAO World Bank, IDB and OECD are working together to make more information accessible
Release of OECD 2023 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Report
The OECD Policy Monitoring and Evaluation report is the world’s largest source of agricultural incentives measures and the major source of data on agricultural incentives. The 2023 edition of this annual report was released on 30 October.
The AgIncentives Consortium aims to change the availability of information on agricultural incentives by bringing together key international organizations to provide comparable incentives data in a single location. The AgIncentives website allows users to visually compare data on almost 90 countries and 70 products over 14 years. Download data to perform your own analyses.
By Swati Malhotra With global food systems facing various stresses—from the Russia Ukraine war to climate change—making them more resilient, health-promoting,
No one organization alone can track these policies worldwide so IFPRI, FAO World Bank, IDB and OECD are working together to make more information accessible
The AgIncentives Consortium brings together data on agricultural protection—and taxation—for countries accounting for 90% of global agricultural output. Policies directly affect incentives that farmers benefit from or face and affect not only the countries using these measures but also the level and volatility of world prices of food and agricultural products. Before the impacts of these policies can be understood, they must be carefully measured and presented on a comparable basis. By working together, our team of five member international organizations provide unprecedented coverage of these vitally important measures. The AgIncentives website allows users to visually compare data on almost 90 countries and 70 products over 14 years. Download data to perform your own analyses.