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Better policies for better lives: The OECD at 50 and beyond

03-May-2011

The OECD’s 50th Anniversary is an opportunity to reaffirm what we stand for and what we are about. After 50 years, our objective is and remains to help member and partner country’s governments to formulate and implement better policies for better lives.

FOOD: The trillion dollar grocery bill: what’s making global food prices so volatile?

19-Nov-2010

Patrick Love

Unpredictability is one of the reasons food commodity prices have been so volatile over the past year. With prices on the rise the global bill for food imports will top a trillion dollars, a level not ...

Release of the OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook

15-Jun-2010

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

In his speech for the release of the OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook in Rome, Italy, Angel Gurría said that the macroeconomic prospects underlying it are more favourable, supply response has been strong, stocks are healthier and most of the ad hoc restrictions on agricultural exports have been lifted.

OECD Programme on Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

31-Mar-2010

Free brochure on OECD work in food, agriculture and fisheries

Water Economics and Financing

16-Mar-2010

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

In his opening remarks for the book launch for the Horizontal Water Programme, Mr. Gurría underlined that good water management is important for a stronger, cleaner and fairer economy.

Réponses des pays membres de l’OCDE, questionnaire, gestion des ressources en eau dans l’agriculture

09-Mar-2010

Réponses des pays membres de l’OCDE à un questionnaire sur la gestion des ressources en eau dans l’agriculture

OECD Country questionnaire, Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture

09-Mar-2010

Country questionnaire for the OECD publication Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture

G20 Summit: Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth

25-Sep-2009

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Secretary-General Gurría called for the need to agree on common international targets in areas such as innovation and green growth predicting "they could become the overarching umbrella for the G20 Framework’s ...

OECD-G20: International standards on structural policies key to emerging from crisis

25-Sep-2009

Secretary-General Gurría called for the need to agree on common international targets in areas such as innovation and green growth predicting "they could become the overarching umbrella for the G20 Framework’s ...

Agriculture more resilient to global crisis than other sectors, says OECD and FAO

17-Jun-2009

Because food is a basic necessity, the agriculture sector is showing more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries, according to a new report by the OECD and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Food commodity data & forecasts

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook