This report Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2020 is the 33rd in the series of OECD reports that monitor and evaluate agricultural policies across countries, and the eighth report to include both OECD countries and a set of emerging and developing economies. The present report includes countries from all six continents, including the 37 OECD countries and the five non-OECD EU Member States, as well as twelve emerging economies: Argentina, Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Ukraine and Viet Nam.
The OECD uses a comprehensive system for measuring and classifying support to agriculture — the Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs and CSEs) and related indicators. They provide insights into the increasingly complex nature of agricultural policy and serve as a basis for OECD’s agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation.
The “Executive Summary” synthesises the key findings of the report. Chapter 1 provides an overview of recent developments in agricultural policies, including a focus on emerging agriculture and food policy responses to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter also assesses the environmental performance of agriculture and discusses the impact of agricultural policies on that performance and analyses the longer-term development of the level and structure of support to agriculture across countries included in the report. The publication also includes short Country Snapshots which briefly summarise the developments in agricultural policies and support to farms in each individual country covered by this report (the European Union which has a Common Agricultural Policy is presented as a single Country Snapshot). Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are presented in greater detail in the Country Snapshots.
Comprehensive Country Chapters and the Statistical Annex containing detailed background tables with indicators of agricultural support are available only in electronic form on the OECD publication website (https://doi.org/10.1787/928181a8-en).
The Executive Summary and Chapter 1 are published under the responsibility of the OECD Committee for Agriculture. The remainder of the report is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.