This report was prepared in the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate by Koen Deconinck with contributions by Ellie Avery (lead author of the ruminant livestock chapter), Jonathan Brooks (co-author of Chapters 1 and 2), Gwen DeBoe, Claire Delpeuch, Clara Frezal, Csaba Gaspar, Hubertus Gay, Céline Giner, Sophia Gnych (lead author of the seeds sector chapter), Guillaume Gruère, Santiago Guerrero, Ben Henderson, James Innes, Lee Ann Jackson, Jussi Lankoski, Catherine Moreddu, Julia Nielsen, Olivia Placzek, Will Symes, and Jessica Wallingford (lead author of the processed foods chapter). Jonathan Brooks and Lee Ann Jackson provided guidance as Head of the Division on Agro-food Trade and Markets. Statistical support was provided by Ana-Maria Muresan, Claude Nenert, and Armelle Elasri. Editorial assistance was provided by Michèle Patterson. Administrative support was provided by Helen Maguire and Helia Mossavar-Rahmani.
The development of this work benefited from comments and suggestions by numerous colleagues across different OECD directorates including the Trade and Agriculture Directorate (TAD), the Governance Directorate (GOV), the Environment Directorate (ENV), the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate (STI), the Economics Department (ECO), the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF), and the Office of the Secretary-General (SGE). In particular, extensive comments were gratefully received from Julio Bacio Terracino, Pauline Bertrand, Hélène Blake, Filippo Cavassini, Michele Cecchini, Claudia Chwalisz, Bertrand Dagallier, James Drummond, Sara Fyson, Jose Enrique Garcilazo, David Goessmann, Shivani Kannabhiran, Tomasz Kozluk, Carina Lindberg, Nick Malyshev, Neil Martin, Mariana Mirabile, Francesca Papa, Mariana Prats, Toni Rumpf, Rebecca Santos, Ernesto Soria Morales, Piret Tonurist, Daniel Trnka, and William Tompson. The development of this report also benefited from discussion in the OECD Food Chain Analysis Network meeting hosted by Wageningen University and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in September 2019. The chapter on the seeds sector benefited from comments and suggestions by the Technical Working Group Meeting of the OECD Seed Schemes, as well as Seed Scheme delegates and experts from the Netherlands, the European Commission, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, and the United States, and organisations including the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), the EU Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), the World Farmers Organisation (WFO), the International Seed Federation (ISF), the International Food Policy Research institute (IFPRI), Consiglio per la Ricerca in agricoltura e analisi dell’ Economia Agraria (CREA), the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN), the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA). Furthermore, the report benefited from comments by Julian M. Alston (University of California, Davis), Ken Ash, Carmel Cahill, Jeroen Candel (Wageningen University), Keith Fuglie (USAID), Paul Heisey, Peter Kearns (Re-Imagine Europa ‒ RIE), Jayson Lusk (Purdue University), Will Masters (Tufts University), Kelly Parsons (Hertfordshire University), and Matin Qaim (Goettingen University).
This report was declassified by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets, 24-26 November 2020.