Agricultural ODA plays an important role in international development cooperation to reduce the poverty of developing countries. Particularly, enhancement of agricultural production capacity is one of the key policy areas for poverty reduction. This paper analyzes impacts of agricultural ODA on agricultural production in developing countries. The empirical result shows that both agricultural ODA and FDI have positive effects on agricultural production of developing countries. Also, the impacts of agricultural production are estimated depending on types of agricultural ODA, direct and indirect. Generally, indirect type of agricultural ODA appears to have a slightly stronger production impact than direct type. The agricultural production increases 0.09% and 0.07% with additional 10% of each type of agricultural ODA. However, the empirical results varied with the income levels of recipient countries; direct agricultural ODA has positive significant production effect in LMIC (lower middle-income countries), while indirect agricultural ODA has positive effects in UMIC (upper middle-income countries).

• 김영일(한국농수산식품유통공사) | Young-il Kim
• 한홍열(한양대학교 경제학부) | Hong-yul Han Corresponding author