This report is a collaboration between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The report was funded by a voluntary contribution from the Italian Government and is an outcome of Italy’s G7 Presidency in 2017.
The report was prepared by Emily Gray (report and project leader), Morvarid Bagherzadeh, Katherine Baldwin, Francesca Casalini and Makiko Shigemitsu of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD; and Stephan Baas, Eugene Kanguatjivi, Marion Khamis, Wirya Khim, Rebeca Koloffon, Clarissa Roncato-Baldin and Tamara van ‘t Wout of the FAO. The individual chapters represent contributions from a number of different authors and include: Emily Gray for the introduction; Tamara van ‘t Wout (FAO) for chapter 2; Emily Gray with input from the OECD and FAO teams for chapter 3; Emily Gray with input from Makiko Shigemtisu for chapter 4; Tamara van ‘t Wout and Claudio Osorio for chapter 5; Katherine Baldwin and Francesca Casalini for chapter 6; Makiko Shigemitsu and Emily Gray for chapter 7; Tamara van ‘t Wout and Adrianatus Maseke for chapter 8; Francesca Casalini and Emily Gray for chapter 9; Morvarid Bagherzadeh and Makiko Shigemitsu for chapter 10: and Emily Gray and Katherine Baldwin for chapter 11.
The publication was edited by Martina Abderrahmane and publication support was provided by Michèle Patterson. Additional drafting services for chapters 6,7,9, 10 and 11 was provided by Wilfrid Legg. Valuable inputs and comments were also received from Jesús Anton, Jon Brooks, Guillaume Gruére and Julia Nielson of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD; George Rapsomanikis and Boubaker Ben-Belhassen of the FAO.
The report greatly benefited from discussions and meetings held with policy makers, subject matter experts, and industry stakeholders in the seven case study countries, as well as participants in virtual policy seminars held in December 2020. Valuable assistance and support for co-ordinating outreach and facilitating the conversations and connections that made the case studies possible was also provided by: Jorge Vega of Agroseguros (Chile), Francisco Parada of the Agricultural Development Institute INDAP (Chile) and Oscar Bustamante, Gabriel Layseca, Beatriz Ormazábal, Liliana Villaneuva, Antonio Yaksic of the Ministry of Agriculture (Chile); Graziella Romito, Silvia Nicoli and experts from the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italy); Ritsuko Yoneda, Tomoko Isobe, Tomohiko Sakamoto, Hidenori Akasaka, Tomohiro Misumi and colleagues from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan); Josephat Peter, Johanna Shapwa and experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform (Namibia); Susan Keenan, Richard Wallace and experts from the Ministry for Primary Industries, and Paul Barker and Pam Johnston from the Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand); and experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Turkey); Anne Effland, Ashley Hungerford, Jan Lewandrowski, Steve Neff and experts from the United States Department of Agriculture (United States).