Focus on aid to agriculture

Bookmark this page: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/agriculture

Definition:  The DAC defines aid to agriculture as including agricultural sector policy, planning and programmes, agricultural land and water resources, agricultural development and supply of inputs, crops and livestock production, agricultural services, agricultural education, training and research as well as institution capacity building and advice.

For analysis purposes in its statistical presentations, the Secretariat includes below aid to agriculture the agricultural sector as defined above, the forestry sector, the fishing sector (both identified separately), and the 'rural development' sub-sector (classified as a multi-sector aid). This choice of presentation excludes developmental food aid and emergency food aid.

Ready-made tables and charts:

• Aid to agriculture and rural development (pdf, Dec 2011)
• DAC members' imputed multilateral contributions to the  Agricultural         sector:   Secretariat estimations (xls) (updated December 2011) and methodology;

Previous studies:

• "Analysis of aid to agriculture 1995-2007", Special study on aid to agriculture, CRS annual sectoral analysis publication, OECD/DAC;
• Measuring Aid to Agriculture (pdf, April 2010)
• Measuring Aid to Forestry (pdf, Nov 2008)
• Aid to agriculture (pdf, Dec 2001)

Links to statistics on aid to agriculture

To obtain statistics on aid to agriculture, connect to International Development Statistics (IDS) online 

or click on the followings links:

• Aid to agriculture, rural development and other food-security-related sectors by sub-sector, commitments, 2005-10  
• Aid to agriculture and rural development by donor, commitments, 2005-10  

For more information on OECD work on Agriculture: www.oecd.org/agriculture