PARIS - At the 2022 OECD Meeting of Agriculture Ministers, Ministers and high-level representatives from across the globe have committed, in a Ministerial Declaration, to transformative solutions that contribute to building sustainable agriculture and food systems.
The Declaration on Transformative Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems was adopted on 4 November 2022 on the occasion of the Ministerial meeting of the OECD Committee forAgriculture (COAG) held in Paris. The Declaration articulates a shared vision for governments on the actions needed to transform agriculture and food systems with a view to i) ensuring food security and nutrition, ii) strengthening sustainability and iii) ensuring inclusive livelihoods.
The Declaration underlines the key role of developing transformative and innovative policies towards more sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems. To this end, it calls on Adherents to develop and implement coherent whole-of-government policy packages, promote inclusive processes,increase investment in research and development and infrastructure, enhance research collaboration and knowledge sharing, strengthen international cooperation, strengthen the contribution of trade to agriculture and food systems transformation and develop measures for local, national and global food systems.
Ministers also invited the OECD, through COAG, to develop work in a number of key areas, including measuring sustainable agricultural productivity growth; developing new approaches to support inclusive policy efforts; analysing opportunities for demand-side policies; enhancing agri-environmental indicators and developing metrics to measure climate change mitigation and adaptation; measuring trade’s contribution to sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems; examining environmentally harmful and beneficial support measures; collecting evidence on women’s contribution into innovation and on the gender responsiveness of policies and standards; and assessing policies to support the transition for entrants and those exiting the sector.
The Declaration builds on extensive work of the OECD on agriculture and food systems over the past20 years, including the 2016 Declaration on Better Policies to Achieve a Productive, Sustainable andResilient Global Food System [OECD/LEGAL/0423], as well as findings included in the OECDAgricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation reports, the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook and the2021 Making Better Policies for Food Systems report
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