This review was led by Francesco Vanni in a project overseen by Jesús Antón. It was prepared by a large OECD team from the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate’s Agriculture and Resource Policies Division, under the lead of Guillaume Gruère and general oversight of Marion Jansen. Roger Martini is the author of Chapter 4 and Urszula Ziębińska of Chapter 5. Other contributing authors are Masayasu Asai, Carlos Böke Pascual, Mercedes Campi, Adriana García Vargas, Leonie Gollisch, Marta Pinzan, and Daniela Rodríguez, who was also in charge of the statistics for the review. Several OECD colleagues provided valuable comments, including Koen Deconinck, Clara Frezal, Céline Giner, Ben Henderson Jerome Mounsey, Julia Nielson and Martin Von Lampe. Martina Abderrahmane and Michèle Patterson provided invaluable editing and publication support.
The review benefitted from a background report on EU agricultural policy by Alan Matthews (Trinity College Dublin), from a report on EU environmental regulations and policies by Julia Bognar, Clunie Keenleyside, and Evelyn Underwood (Institute for European Environmental Policy), from a report on the EU food system research and innovation agenda by Gianluca Brunori (University of Pisa) and inputs form Kaley Hart (Institute for European Environmental Policy). Jennifer Allain provided external editing services.
The review was undertaken with the support of the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) of the European Commission. The DG AGRI team was led by Mark Cropper and Olaf Heidelbach, who ensured the coordination and provided significant contributions to the book. The review also benefited from detailed comments from DG AGRI colleagues Iuri Aganetto, Florence Buchholzer, Fabio Cossu, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, Pierluigi Londero, Ricard Ramon i Sumoy, Alexia Rouby, Gijs Schilthuis, Orsolya Frizon-Somogyi, Inge Van Oost and Luis Vivas Alegre. A large number of other European Commission officials from DG AGRI, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV), Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) also contributed.
Furthermore, valuable comments and insights were drawn from discussions with policy makers and experts from the European Commission, EU Member States, independent experts and stakeholders during several meetings between April 2022 and January 2023.
Delegates of the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets (APM) provided valuable feedback. The authors are grateful in particular to Harry Beeson and Kieran Macdonell (Australia), Kate Dassesse (Switzerland) and Katherine Baldwin (United States) for their active participation as peer reviewers during the 88th Session of the APM on 14 March 2023.
This review was declassified by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets in June 2023..