As for any advocacy activity, it is important to know the local administration and political landscape, the political alliances that are in place, and the attitudes of different parties and different administration units towards environmental issues in general. What is the current attitude of various ministries towards the issue of GMOs, for example? It is also important to understand, as much as possible, the general culture of government/public intervention, especially when it comes to the agricultural sector: for example, are interventionist policies regarded as a tool for achieving the public good, or are they rather regarded as a market distortion? What are the main policy instruments (taxes, subsidies, grants, funded projects, etc.) that the government uses in various sectors? This will help give advocates (or people in charge of designing policies) an idea of what is a feasible outcome of advocacy activities in the area of agriculture support, and which environmental (or other) NGOs or sectors they can partner with, to achieve the desired policy advocacy outcomes.