Percentage of agricultural area under sustainable agricultural practices.

This indicator is proposed as an indicator for Sustainable development Target 02.4 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.

This indicator is included in the list of illustrative indicators on the right to life (Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 3).


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15.3.2


Data

Organisations
At global level, currently there is no data available. However many if not most of the countries record areas which are the object of practices contributing to environmental sustainability under various schemes, either of a regulatory nature, like protected areas for instance, or as part of a subsidies scheme or in a payment for environmental services scheme or as part of voluntary standards, public or private. Countries are also preparing, as part of national reports for the state of the world biodiversity for food and agriculture, statistics on practices contributing to biodiversity, most of which have a broader positive impact on the environment. Moreover, many countries are participating in internationally established strategic frameworks which promote the collection of data at country level. Hence, the data for computing the indicator should be collected through the records that are held in the process of the country participation to those schemes and strategies.

FAO is carrying on a consultation process to develop an indicator on “Area under sustainable land management”, to be developed by the end of 2015. The process will be within the framework of the “World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies” (WOCAT) partnership and in the support of UNCCD implementation and will support countries to assess, map and monitor SLM as well as land degradation