PCARRD ensures that the policy environment is conducive for S&T development and investment in the AFNR sectors. It thus continues to conduct analysis and advocacy on macro policy issues that impact significantly on the AFNR sectors.

Its areas of concern include global competitiveness, agricultural land use and agrarian reform, food security and poverty alleviation, natural resources sustainability and environment fertility, agricultural inputs and support services, crops, livestock, forestry and environment, agricultural resources management, and others.