Highlights and Policy Recommendations

This Review assesses the performance of Israeli agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Israeli agricultural policy reforms and provides recommendations for continuing the reform process in the future. The evaluation is based on the operational criteria of decoupling, transparency, targeting, tailoring, flexibility and equity for good policy design as agreed by OECD Agriculture Ministers in 1998. These criteria, if implemented, would contribute to an economically viable sector within the wider economy that respects the environment and natural resources, ensures efficient use of inputs, and addresses social concerns, without resorting to production and trade distorting subsidies.