Aid to agriculture and rural development

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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.

The statistical presentations included here cover also forestry, fishing and rural development.

Ready-made tables and charts:

• Aid to agriculture and rural development (pdf, Dec 2011)
• DAC members' imputed multilateral contributions to the  Agriculture and rural development 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)

Data:

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