Anatolian Farmers' Council 2025 Rights-Based Policy Report Published

The 2025 Rights-Based Policy Report prepared by the Anatolian Farmers' Council has been published. The report addresses agricultural policies not only in terms of support items but within a framework that safeguards producers' rights to a decent income, predictability, protection against risks and participation in decision-making processes.

In Türkiye, agriculture is a strategic sector that directly affects access to food, rural employment and social inequalities. The report was therefore prepared with a rights-based monitoring framework; by assessing the impact of 2025 agricultural policies on producers, it develops actionable policy recommendations to reduce rights losses on the ground.

Topics covered in the report

• Scope of the concept of rights loss: erosion of income, loss of the real value of support payments, payment delays, inadequate protection against climate risks and weak access to markets
• 2025 support practices: the contribution of the early announcement of support payments to planning, and an assessment of the speed, fairness and effectiveness of implementation based on producers' experience
• Factors straining the capacity to stay in production: rising input costs, disasters such as frost and drought, imbalances in the marketing chain
• Thematic analysis of parliamentary questions in the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM): priorities and gaps on the agricultural agenda, based on the questions submitted throughout 2025

The report's main emphasis is on moving beyond post-crisis compensation and strengthening risk reduction and real income protection policies. The findings show that post-disaster interventions predominate, and that preventive and transformation-oriented instruments need to be institutionalised more strongly.

Beyond offering a critical assessment, the report aims to set out a roadmap that strengthens producers' rights and the resilience of agriculture through policy recommendations that strengthen cooperation between central and local actors, are consistent with budgetary realities and can be monitored.

You can access the report via the link below. You can send your views and comments to [email protected].