The countries most dependent on agriculture are those that subsidize it the least, finds the Farm Foundation in a study of the policy carried out by 90 states.
The situation is paradoxical: the more countries depend on agriculture, the less they support it. Expenditure gaps are very significant between the advanced industrialized economies which massively finance their agriculture and the developing countries, which are lagging far behind even though the sector weighs heavily in GDP and employment. Agriculture should be all the more a priority in the current context of multiple crises – energy, food, climate – which are hitting the poorest countries hard. “Rich countries support their farmers fifteen times more than developing countries. The United States and Europe spend very substantial amounts“, underlines Matthieu Brun, scientific director of the Farm foundation, which has just published an observatory of agricultural policies.
This tool is a first, accessible online, which aggregates data from 90 countries, 46 high income, 36 middle income and 8 low income, covering 90% of agricultural production…
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