The FARM Observatory

The Observatory analyzes and compares public support for agriculture and food around the world.

Journals Library

Find all the half-year summaries: trend analyses, key figures and thematic focuses.

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H2 2024 Review

Underlying trends: reallocation towards collective services and SPM transparency. Impact studies and budgetary lessons.

  • Increased budgets for public services (consulting, R&D, irrigation)
  • WTO debates on distorting subsidies
  • Cost-effectiveness evidence: public procurement vs. targeted transfers
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Review S1 2025

Overview of major budgetary decisions and market measures. Focus on fertilizer reforms, variable cereal prices and PSE pilot programs.

  • Shifts towards social targeting of input subsidies
  • Variable wheat prices and public stocks: price stabilization
  • PSE Pilots: Initial Feedback on MRV and Adoption
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Positioning of the FARM Observatory

The FARM Observatory does not replace data-producing institutions. It mobilizes their work, connects them, and puts them into perspective within an integrated framework for analyzing public support for agriculture and food.

Its added value is to bring together support data, budgetary expenditures, support from price interventions, collective services, consumer support, agricultural trade, productivity and food security indicators, in order to offer a more complete reading of public action.

The Observatory aims to facilitate the appropriation of this data by public decision-makers, technical and financial partners, researchers, professional organizations and actors in the public debate.

Useful resources and reference initiatives

The Observatory draws on the work and methodological frameworks of leading institutions. These resources allow for a deeper analysis of support mechanisms, placing policies in their context and understanding agricultural and food dynamics.

Socio-economic profile & Key indicators

World Bank — World Development Indicators
Reference basis for macroeconomic, demographic and socio-economic indicators.

FAOSTAT — Agricultural and food data…
FAO statistical database for documenting agricultural characteristics (production, areas, agricultural population, etc.).

Data on agricultural support

OECD — Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies
International reference framework for the analysis of support to agriculture (producers, consumers, services…).

FAO-MAFAP — Monitoring and Analyzing…
FAO Programme on Policy Monitoring, Public Expenditure and Price Incentives.

AgIncentives — Agricultural Incentives Consortium
International initiative on comparable data for agricultural incentives.

BID — Agrimonitor
Inter-American Development Bank database on support in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Trade, Productivity & Food Security

CEPII — BACI (Commerce)
International database on trade exchanges for analyzing exported/imported products.

USDA — International Agricultural Productivity
Monitoring the evolution of agricultural productivity and performance dynamics.

FAOSTAT — Food security indicators
Documentation of food availability, consumption trends and nutrition.

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