This report is authored by Gwendolen DeBoe and Marie-Agnès Jouanjean of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. The ten case studies prepared in support of this report were written by Gwendolen DeBoe (Case studies 1 to 7) and Marie-Agnès Jouanjean (Case studies 8 to 10), in collaboration with the following case study participants: Michele Barson (Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources), Anti Bleive (Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board), Ross Brennan (United States Environmental Protection Agency), Michael H. Cosh (USDA-ARS), Jan Gerrit Deelan (Agricultural Counsellor, Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the OECD), Johnny Gonzales (California State Water Resources Control Board), Stephen Hardy (CSIRO), Frans Lips (Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit), Richard McDowell (Our Land and Water New Zealand / AgResearch), Aard Mulders (Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, Food Quality), Lisa Pearson (Land and Water Science Ltd.), Dimitris Petalios (CREVIS), Jodi Pontureri (California State Water Resources Control Board), Perry Poulton (CSIRO), Clint Rissman (Waterways Centre / Land and Water Science Ltd.), MS Srinivasan (NIWA), Brianna St Pierre (California State Water Resources Control Board), Dan Tindall (Remote Sensing Centre, Queensland Department of Environment and Science & Joint Remote Sensing Research Program), Catherine Tunis (United States Environmental Protection Agency), Oliver Väärtnõu (Cybernetica), Inger Wilms (BoerenNatuur). However, readers should note that lessons drawn from the case studies are the responsibility of the OECD authors and do not necessarily express the views of the case study participants or their affiliated organisations. The authors gratefully acknowledge the organisations who responded to the questionnaire conducted in support of this report (for a full list, see Annex B).
More generally, the report benefitted from comments and suggestions from OECD delegations, and from OECD colleagues Jesus Anton, Carmel Cahill, Francesca Casalini, Janos Ferencz, Emily Gray, Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Jared Greenville, Franck Jésus, Catherine Moreddu, Julia Nielson, Caroline Paunov and Frank van Tongeren. Theresa Poincet and Stéphanie Lincourt helped manage the administrative process, and Michèle Patterson and Martina Abderrahmane formatted the report for publication.
This document was declassified by the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and the Environment in June 2019.