Virtual Training For Arab Countries on SDG indicator 2.4.1 “Proportion of Agricultural Area under Productive and Sustainable Agriculture”

Member countries commitments to the 2030 Agenda include providing information for monitoring and reporting on SDG indicators. The SDG indicator 2.4.1: Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture, is at the core of transformational change towards more sustainable and productive agriculture. It therefore captures the three dimensions of sustainable production: environmental, economic and social.

FAO is responsible for SDG 2.4.1, which is among the 21 indicators for which it is a custodian. As such it is working closely with countries to develop their capacity on data collection and monitoring, especially pertaining to sustainable food and agriculture. FAO will report on SDG 2.4.1 for the first time in early 2023. Nevertheless, only 4 out of 18 countries in the Near East and North Africa Region provided data.

As such, a virtual capacity development workshop of 4 half days is taking place from 06-09 June 2022 to provide guidance on the SDG 2.4.1 methodology, data collection and reporting for NENA countries.

The overall objective of this virtual training is to provide capacity development on the methodology, data collection and analysis relevant to sustainable food and agriculture. Information will be provided on appropriate data collection instruments, namely farm surveys, including how to use these to provide the data needed for the SDG 2.4.1 indicators and to identify the data gaps faced by countries.

This virtual training will help the counterparts evaluate availability of national and sub-national data needed to compute indicator 2.4.1, understand its measurement challenges, introduce effective data collection mechanisms with an ultimate aim to provide a basis for designing improved data-driven policies.