Agriculture - Ministerial meeting 25-26 February - Final communiqué

26-Feb-2010

Policy Principles for Food and Agriculture and Guidance Concerning the Strategic Orientation of Future Work to be Undertaken by OECD- (Text agreed by representatives of the OECD countries, the EU and of Chile, Estonia, Israel, Romania, the Russian Federation, and Slovenia).

Poverty reduction: the economic importance of agriculture

18-Jan-2010

The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for halving the number of people living in extreme poverty. Exceptional progress has been made in some developing countries but many others will fall far short, and up to 1 billion people are likely to remain destitute by 2015.

Why are some countries doing better than others? This paper seeks to answer that question by looking for shared characteristics of 25 developing countries posting extraordinary success in reducing extreme poverty over the past 20 to 25 years.

Réunion ministerielle de l'OCDE sur l'agriculture, 25-26 février 2010

18-Jan-2010

Les ministres des pays membres de l'OCDE et des économies émergentes majeures se sont réunis à Paris les 25 et 26 février 2010 en vue de déterminer comment le secteur agricole et agroalimentaire peut répondre aux nouveaux défis et opportunités.

New Consensus Document on compositional considerations for new varieties of CASSAVA (Manihot esculenta)

16-Nov-2009

A Consensus Document on compositional considerations for new varieties of CASSAVA (Manihot esculenta), number 18 in the Series on Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds, is now available online. It contains information on key nutrients, anti-nutrients, toxicants and allergens of food and feed obtained from this staple crop of major importance to many tropical-subtropical regions of the world.

Publication of the OECD Guidance Document on Defining Minor Uses of Pesticides

06-Nov-2009

This Guidance Document has been developed to help countries define minor uses of pesticides at national or regional levels with the aim of enhancing the consistency among countries.  It does not give an OECD definition, but rather it lists the critical elements to consider when developing a minor use definition. It was developed by Australia and reviewed on several occasions by the OECD pesticide groups.

Publication of the OECD Strategic Approach in Pesticide Risk Reduction

06-Nov-2009

The OECD Strategic Approach in Pesticide Risk Reduction:

• takes into account some of the main outcomes from OECD’s work on pesticide risk reduction,
• identifies the core elements that contribute to the reduction of risks arising from the use of pesticides,
• describes the main measures that lead to a significant reduction of pesticide risks (e.g. registration, compliance, IPM, training, technology, R&D, etc.), and
• recommends key elements for ensuring implementation and adoption of national action plans.