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, Dalila Cervantes-Godoy, Gwendolen DeBoe, Dimitris Diakosavvas, Aline Gastardelo, Emily Gray, Guillaume Gruère, Santiago Guerrero, Ben Henderson, Marie-Agnès Jouanjean, Shingo Kimura, Jussi Lankoski, Clarisse Legendre, Catherine Moreddu, Ida Peltonen, 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); the People’s Republic of China – Cheng Guoqiang (School of Economics and Management, Tongji University), Zhu Mande (Guizhou University), Li Xinyi (Tongji University) and Yu Wen (Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences); India – Shweta Saini and Sakshi Gupta (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations); Kazakhstan – Ruslan 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), Eduardo Sanguyo and Guadalupe Montes-Erfe (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), and Tran Cong Thang and Truong Thi Thu Trang (Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development).
The Secretariat would also like to acknowledge the pioneering work of Professor Tim Josling in developing the PSE methodology, who passed away at his home in California in November, 2018. Professor Josling’s work was a significant contribution to the development of the OECD’s efforts to measure support to agriculture.