The FAO contribution to monitoring SDGs for food and agriculture
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A recent Editorial in Nature Plants highlighted the key role that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) plays in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The FAO is the designated United Nations custodian agency for 21 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators and the contributing agency for another five — covering over 10% of the entire SDG global indicator framework in total. We recognize that this expanded role implies a considerably higher commitment of the organization in the definition of new methods and tools for collecting and disseminating food and agriculture statistics, but also a larger involvement in supporting countries’ efforts in monitoring SDG targets. An extensive modernization of the national data systems and the establishment of new coordination mechanisms among national producers of food and agriculture data are required to meet the new, significant challenges introduced by the 2030 Agenda. We would add that the need for such modernization and coordination is even further emphasized by the growing agriculture and land use data requirements of the Paris climate agreement2.