2.a.2: Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector

Definition
Gross disbursements of total Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Other Official Flows (OOF) from all donors to the agriculture sector, calculated as the sum of ODA and OOF flows from all donors to developing countries in the agriculture sector

The DAC defines ODA as “those flows to countries and territories on the DAC List of ODA Recipients and to multilateral institutions which are
 * provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or by their executive agencies; and
 * each transaction is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective;
 * and is concessional in character and conveys a grant element of at least 25 per cent (calculated at a rate of discount of 10 per cent).

Other official flows (OOF) (excluding officially supported export credits) are defined as transactions by the official sector which do not meet the conditions for eligibility as ODA, either because they are not primarily aimed at development, or because they are not sufficiently concessional.

Rice Impacts
As rice consumption increases along with the global population, governments have to grapple with worsening food insecurity in the near future. While projections point to a 25% increase in global rice consumption over the next 25 years, yields in key rice producing countries may fall by up to 20% due to climate change impacts such as rising sea levels, salinity, temperature rise, droughts and floods. External donations to state or local governments for agricultural projects will help countries make the push towards sustainable production within farmers and sustainable consumption within the general population.

Overlaps with the SRP Instruments
SRP Child projects include farmers in 19 countries that often receive a large portion of these budgets for their crops, allowing for robust sampling of data, where donor contributions to the SRP projects are well documented and auditable.