the evaluation is based on the oecd committee for agriculture s approach that agriculture policy should be evidencebased and carefully designed and implemented to support productivity competitiveness and sustainability while avoiding unnecessary distortions to production decisions and to trade conducted in partnership with the oecd investment committee the review comprises a special chapter highlighting key challenges to be addressed to improve the investment climate in agriculture drawing from the oecd policy framework for investment in agriculture its population of million makes it the th most populous country in the world