UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation

According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Report , the governments of 54 countries (including all OECD members and the European Union as a whole, plus key emerging economies) provided transfers to agriculture of around $720 billion per year during 2018-2020. The report notes that “Overall, most current support policies are not serving the wider needs of food systems.”