This report was prepared by the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD with the active participation of countries included in this report. The following people from the OECD Secretariat contributed to the preparation of this report: Martin von Lampe (project leader), Václav Vojtech (co-ordinator), Jesús Antón, Ken Ash, Morvarid Bagherzadeh, Katherine Baldwin, Florence Bossard, Jonathan Brooks, Dalila Cervantes-Godoy, Dimitris Diakosavvas, Shingo Futami, Emily Gray, Guillaume Gruère, Santiago Guerrero, Hélène Guillou, Ben Henderson, Shingo Kimura, Jussi Lankoski, Clarisse Legendre, Roger Martini, Catherine Moreddu, Makiko Shigemitsu, Silvia Sorescu, Karine Souvanheuane, Noura Takrouri-Jolly, Misun Yoo and Urszula Ziebinska (statistical co-ordinator). Administrative and editing services were provided by Martina Abderrahmane.
The following experts from emerging economies also contributed to this report: Argentina – Simona Paulero (Secretary of Agroindustry), Malena Goldring and Gerardo Luis Petri (Ministry of Agriculture); Brazil – Antônio Luiz Machado de Moraes (Ministry of Agriculture); Claudio Filgueiras Pacheco Moreira (Central bank of Brazil), Otavio Ladeira de Medeiros (Brazil's national Treasury); the People’s Republic of China – Cheng Guoqiang (School of Economics and Management, Tongji University), Zhu Mande (Guizhou University), Wu Xiaohong (Tongji University) and Zhuang Jiayu (Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences); India – Ashok Gulati and Sakshi Gupta (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations); Indonesia – Tahlim Sudaryanto (Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies, Ministry of Agriculture), Kazakhstan – Yerlan Syzdykov (Analytical Centre for Economic Policy in the Agricultural Sector); the Philippines – Tisha Pia E. Dela Rosa, Frances Kaye, Anne Adao and Katrin Mares (Department of Agriculture), Grace del Prado and Carla G. Menguito (Philippine Statistical Authority); Russian Federation – Olga Melyukhina; South Africa – David Spies (North-West University, Potchefstroom); Ukraine – Vitaliy Zhygadlo; Viet Nam – Hieu Phan Sy and Nguyen Thi Thu Trang (Center for Informatics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Tran Cong Thang and Truong Thi Thu Trang (Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development).