Sust Agriculture SDG 2.4.1_ENGLISH
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The document discusses sustainable agriculture indicators, particularly SDG indicator 2.4.1, which measures the proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable practices to ensure food security by 2030. It outlines a detailed methodology for assessing sustainability across economic, environmental, and social dimensions, including specific themes and sub-indicators. Moreover, it addresses data collection challenges, implementation strategies, and the importance of creating a structured framework to encourage policy action towards agricultural sustainability.
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- 1. AGENDA ITEM 3.5: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, FOOD LOSSES & WASTE INDICATORS • Indicator 2.4.1 – Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA working group on agricultural and livestock statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean Quito, Ecuador, 24 - 26 October 2017
- 2. SDG GOAL, TARGET & INDICATOR SDG Goal 2: Zero Hunger Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality Indicator 2.4.1: Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture Status: Tier 3 – Submitted to IAEG for upgrading to Tier 2
- 3. INDICATOR FORMULA Formula: Proportion of land under productive and sustainable agriculture: = 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 Where: Agricultural area = arable land + Permanent crops + permanent meadows and pastures • The denominator agricultural area is a well-known and established indicator that is collected by statistical bodies in countries and compiled internationally via a questionnaire by FAO. These data are available in FAO’s database FAOSTAT • The numerator captures the three dimensions of sustainable production: environmental, economic and social • Land (agricultural area) under productive and sustainable agriculture will be the agricultural area of those farms that satisfy sub-indicators selected across all three dimensions.
- 4. METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT STEPS* 1. Choosing the scale for sustainability assessment 2. Determining the scope of activities 3. Determining coverage of dimensions 4. Selecting the themes within each dimension 5. Choosing sub-indicator/s for each theme 6. Establishing sustainability criteria for each sub-indicator 7. Assessing sustainability performance at farm level by sub-indicator 8. Deriving aggregate measures of sustainability 9. Report aggregate indicator 2.4.1 and sub-indicators by themes using a dashboard * Indicator methodology developed in collaboration with Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS)
- 5. METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES Key principles applied in developing the indicator: • Policy relevance and “action-ability” • Universality • Comparability • Measurability and cost effectiveness Impacts upon: • Choice of sub-indicators for different dimensions • Choice of sustainability criteria for each sub-indicator • Level of sophistication in data collection Indicator focus: • As opposed to practices the indicator measure outcomes: More objective, record state or change of state
- 6. STRUCTURE OF THE INDICATOR Indicator: Overall indicator for target 2.4 Dimension: Economic, environmental, social Theme: Specific topic within a dimension (e.g. profitability) Sub-indicator: Metric used to measure a specific theme (e.g. Net farm income) Variable: Items that are the focus of data collection
- 7. MEASUREMENT SCOPE • Development of indicator at farm level • Focus on crop and livestock production • Forestry, fisheries and aquaculture are excluded • Backyard production and hobby farms are excluded • Food harvested from the wild is excluded • Agro-forestry systems and rice-fish system are included • Non-food crops and livestock outputs are included (including crops for energy)
- 8. INDICATOR COMPOSITION Proposed themes and sub-indicators Dimensions No. Themes Sub-indicators Economic 1 Land productivity Farm output value per farm agricultural area 2 Farm profitability Net farm income 3 Financial resilience Access to financial services Environmental 4 Soil health Soil health 5 Water health Water use Water quality 6 Biodiversity Agricultural heterogeneity Social 7 Decent work Wage rate in agriculture 8 Well-being Agricultural household income 9 Access to land Secure rights to land tenure
- 9. INDICATOR COMPOSITION Proposed sustainability criteria Dimensions No. Themes Sub-indicators Proposed sustainability criteria Economic 1 Land productivity Farm output value per farm agricultural area Above one third of the 90th percentile 2 Farm profitability Net farm income Zero and above 3 Financial resilience Access to financial services Access to at least one of the financial services Environmental 4 Soil health Soil health At least half of farm not affected by soil degradation 5 Water health Water use No trend detected in groundwater level Water quality Nitrogen concentration in rivers and aquifers below 50 mg/l 6 Biodiversity Agricultural heterogeneity Shannon Evenness Index above 0.3, Average patch size lower than 2 ha and Edge density below 0.01 Social 7 Decent work Wage rate in agriculture Equal to or above the international poverty line 8 Well-being Agricultural household income Equal to or above the international poverty line 9 Access to land Secure rights to land tenure Positive response to at least one of the secure rights conditions
- 10. One Out All Out Approach (OOAO): When all 9 themes are assessed as sustainable relative to its criteria. Where: AAi = Agricultural area of farm i Si = Assessment of farm i Si = 0 when at least one sub-indicator is considered not sustainable Si = 1 when all sub-indicators are considered sustainable or not applicable Dimension Based Approach (DBA): When 2 of the 3 themes are assessed as sustainable for each dimension. Where: AAi = Agricultural area of farm i 𝑆𝑖 ′ = Assessment of farm i 𝑆𝑖 ′ = 0 when at least two themes in at least one dimension are considered not sustainable 𝑆𝑖 ′ = 1 when 2 out 3 themes in each dimension are considered sustainable or not applicable COMPILATION OF AGGREGATE INDICATOR Aggregate indicator is formed by summing the agricultural area of the sampled farms considered sustainable in relation to total agricultural area of the country. 𝑆𝐷𝐺 2.4.1 𝑂𝑂𝐴𝑂 = 𝑖=1 𝑛 𝐴𝐴𝑖 ∗ 𝑆𝑖 𝑖=1 𝑛 𝐴𝐴𝑖 𝑆𝐷𝐺 2.4.1 𝐷𝐵𝐴 = 𝑖=1 𝑛 𝐴𝐴𝑖 ∗ 𝑆𝑖 ′ 𝑖=1 𝑛 𝐴𝐴𝑖
- 11. DATA SOURCES • Farm survey • Supplemented by monitoring systems, remote sensing and thematic maps for attributing results to the farm. • Price survey and administrative sources
- 12. REPORTING THE INDICATOR Frequency: every 3 years Disaggregation: • Sub-national level • Type of activity • Size of farm Reporting of sustainable agricultural area at: • General level: aggregate indicator • Dimension level: – Economically sustainable – Socially sustainable – Environmentally sustainable • Theme/sub-indicator level according to: – Land productivity – Farm profitability – Financial resilience – Soil health – Water health o Water use o Water quality – Biodiversity – Decent work – Well-being – Access to land
- 13. INDICATOR LIMITATIONS • The indicator covers only selected key aspects related to sustainable agriculture at farm level. • Not covered for farm: • Labour productivity • Pollution from pesticides • Energy use • GHG emissions • Burning • Gender equality • Occupational health and safety • Food waste • Not covered beyond farm: • Diversification of the national agriculture as a whole • Food security • Land concentration • Land-use changes • Quality of the agricultural outputs • Nutrition • Transportation, storage, processing, distribution and marketing • Sustainability of supply chain • Foreign trade
- 14. AFCAS25, Entebbe, Uganda 13-17 Nov 2017 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES • Collection and compilation of the required data: • Implementation of farm survey • Incorporation of additional questions in a farm survey (where it exists) • Capturing the reference coordinates of the sampled farms • Adaptation of the farm survey sample size and design (if necessary) • Implementing/strengthening the water quality monitoring system • Producing/updating/improving environmental thematic maps • Integration of different data sources • Country capacity building • Resources (e.g. infrastructure, staff, budget, etc.) • Institutional coordination
- 15. AFCAS25, Entebbe, Uganda 13-17 Nov 2017 Empirical RESULTS Desktop testing is ongoing in 5 countries: • Bangladesh • Ecuador • Italy • Kyrgyz Republic • Rwanda The tests aim to assess: • Availability and quality of data • Feasibility of building the sub-indicators • Correlation among the sub-indicators • Sensitivity of the results to threshold values • Compilation of the aggregate 2.4.1 indicator according to alternative approaches
- 16. INDICATOR POLICY USE AND INTERPRETATION Policy use: Aggregate indicator and associated dashboard is a way forward to: • Create an international standard and method • Provide a structured and transparent framework to measure sustainable agriculture • Encourage discussion of sustainability and link to policy action • Allows focus on main issues related to sustainability • Drive the policy towards agricultural sustainability • Measure the progress towards sustainable outcomes • Focus on interventions on various levels Interpretation: • Easy to interpret in terms of the extent to which country agriculture is far from being productive and sustainable • Easy to identify and prioritize the areas that require intervention
- 17. FAO – CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT/TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE* • Country desktop testing (October to December 2017) • Training workshop (November 2017) • Development of toolkit (1st half of 2018) • Development of questionnaire and instruction manual • Field tests of data collection instrument • Development of data processing procedures • Preparation of guidelines (2018) • Development of training material including e-learning (2018) * Will be conducted in collaboration with Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS)
- 18. QUESTIONS FOR THE PANEL What do you perceive to be the most important challenges for the implementation of this/these indicator/s? Which kind of support you think that FAO can provide to overcome these challenges? * Will be conducted in collaboration with Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS)
- 19. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: INDICATOR 2.4.1 – JEAN-MARC FAURES [email protected] 19