This report Agricultural Policies: Monitoring and Evaluation 2011 – OECD Countries and Emerging Economies monitors and evaluates agricultural policy developments in OECD member countries and five emerging economies: Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.* The report includes Chile and Israel which became OECD members in 2010. Estonia and Slovenia also became members in 2010 and are, as are other members of the European Union, included in the EU country chapter.

This report was prepared by the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD with the active participation of member countries and emerging economies. The following people from the OECD Secretariat contributed to drafting this report: Vaclav Vojt.ch (co-ordinator), Jesus Anton, Ken Ash, Lars Brink, Jonathan Brooks, Carmel Cahill, Andrea Cattaneo, Dimitris Diakosavvas, Dalila Godoy-Cervantes, Hsin Huang, Hyunchul Jeong, Joanna Komorowska, Shingo Kimura, Andrzej Kwieci.ski, Martin von Lampe, Wilfrid Legg, Roger Martini, Alexandra de Matos Nunes, Catherine Moreddu, Olga Melyukhina, Kevin Parris, Michael Plummer, Raed Safadi, Veronique de Saint-Martin, Hiroki Sasaki, Frank van Tongeren and Jonghyun Yoo. Alexandra de Matos Nunes co-ordinated the preparation of the main tables and graphs. Statistical assistance was provided by Florence Bossard, Joanna Komorowska, Clarisse Legendre, Christine Le Thi, Latitia Reille, Veronique de Saint-Martin and Noura Takrouri-Jolly. Administrative services were provided by Francoise Benicourt, Marina Giacalone-Belkadi, Anita Lari and Delphine Malbranq-Duclos. Technical assistance and programming in the preparation of the PSE/CSE database was provided by Eric Espinasse and Frano Ilicic.

In 2011 the OECD celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion we’ll look briefly at how agriculture has evolved since the 1960s, how the OECD contributed to this evolution, and the issues facing the sector in the 21st century.

This report monitors and evaluates agricultural policy developments in OECD member countries, including Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia which became OECD members in 2010, as well as in five emerging economies that are major players in food and agriculture markets: Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.