Despite reforms in recent years aimed at delinking subsidies from production, more than 70 per cent of assistance to producers continues to be provided through market price supports and payments per unit of output, partly associated with export subsidies. Within developed countries, this assistance is costly and regressive since much of the benefit accrues to large farms, and price supports hurt low-income consumers most because they spend a larger share of household expenditure on food.
En dépit des réformes adoptées au cours des dernières années pour dissocier les subventions de la production, plus de 70 % de l'assistance fournie aux producteurs continue de l'être au moyen d'un soutien des prix du marché et de versements par unité produite, partiellement associés à des subventions à l'exportation.