Share of agricultural land using sustainable agricultural practices

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Indicator

Indicator 2.4.1: Share of agricultural land using sustainable agricultural practices
Definition and concepts
<p>Sustainable agriculture should support healthy ecosystems and sustainable management of fields, water, and natural resources, ensuring at the same time world food security. To be sustainable, agriculture should meet the needs of the present and future generations for its products and services, ensuring at the same time profitability, environmental health, social and economic justice (FAO definition).</p> <p> The national strategic framework operates with the notion “Ensuring sustainable management of natural resources in agriculture” which includes: 1) use of innovation practices for managing agricultural fields and water by: (i) enhancing the fields and using modern crop practices by rotation of agricultural crops and diversification of agricultural products, (ii) enhancing irrigation services together with access to modern irrigation infrastructure and equipment; 2) applying environment friendly production technologies, ecological products, including biodiversity: use of innovation production technologies for obtaining ecological products, and 3) existence of support mechanisms for adapting and mitigating the effects of climate changes on agricultural production and agriculture competitiveness</p>
Unit of measure

Percent, %
Other methodological considerations

It is planned in the future to develop the indicator according to the proxy methodology proposed by FAO
Method of computation
<p>Area covered with productive and sustainable agriculture out of total agricultural area *100.</p> <p> Numerator covers three dimensions of sustainable production: environmental, economic and social. It covers the agricultural areas of the farms which fulfil the selected sub-indicators for all the three dimensions.</p> <p> Denominator is the area of agricultural area managed by agricultural holdings, defined as amount of agricultural areas used by agricultural holdings which are held (exclusively the ones leased), rented, borrowed, purchased. According to the FAO methodologies, the total agricultural area does not include the fields under the state property and the communal ones used by farms.</p> <p> The calculation of the indicator includes a number of stages:</p> <p> 1. Determining the scope of the indicator: the choice for indicator 2.4.1 is to focus on production of crops and growing livestock, excluding forestry, fishing and aquaculture.</p> <p> 2. Definition of aspects which should be covered: the choice for indicator 2.4.1 is done to include environment, economic and social aspects in assessing sustainability.</p> <p> 3. Choosing a scale for assessing sustainability: the choice of indicator 2.4.1 is performed at the level of the farm, with aggregation at higher levels.</p> <p> 4. Selecting the tools for collecting data.</p> <p> 5. Selecting subjects from every dimension and selecting a sub-indicator for every subject.</p> <p> 6. Assessing the efficiency of sustainability at the farm level for every sub-indicator. To assess the sustainability level of the farm, for every subject, they apply adequate sustainability criteria in line with the corresponding sub-indicators.</p> <p> 7. To decide the frequency of indicator monitoring.</p> <p> 8 .Modality for reporting the indicator. A set of sub-indicators is presented in the form of a tool dashboard. The tools’ bar described above provides an answer regarding the measuring of sustainability at the farm level and aggregated at the national level.</p>
Data last updated Jul 17, 2026
Metadata last updated Jul 17, 2026

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Indicator

Indicator 2.4.1: Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
Target

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
UN designated tier

2
Link to global metadata

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-02-04-01.pdf
metadata_fields.goal_meta_link_text

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata (PDF)
International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Related indicators

Direct links to:

2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

5.a.1 (a) Percentage of people with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land (out of total agricultural population), by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

Indirect link to:

Indicator 2.3.2: Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
Metadata update

2024-07-29

Source 1

Data sources

Statistical surveys and calculations
Data producers

National Bureau of Statistics
Data providers

National Bureau of Statistics
Institutional mandate

Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry
Contact details

Baltag Grigore,Plant-based products department, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, 022 204 514, grigore.baltag@maia.gov.md
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