2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture

The scope of indicator 2.4.1 is the agricultural farm holding, and more precisely the agricultural land area of the farm holding, i.e. land used primarily to grow crops and raise livestock. This choice of scope is fully consistent with the intended use of a country’s agricultural land area as the denominator of the aggregate indicator. Specifically, the following are:

Included within scope:

Intensive and extensive crops and livestock production systems.
Subsistence agriculture.
State and common land when used exclusively and managed by the farm holding.
Food and non-food crops and livestock products (e.g. tobacco, cotton, and sheep wool).
Crops grown for fodder or for energy purposes.
Agro-forestry (trees on the agriculture areas of the farm).
Aquaculture, to the extent that it takes place within the agricultural land area. For example, rice-fish farming and similar systems.
Excluded from scope:

State and common land not used exclusively by the farm holding.
Nomadic pastoralism.
Production from gardens and backyards. Production from hobby farms[1].
Holdings focusing exclusively on aquaculture.
Holdings focusing exclusively on forestry.
Food harvested from the wild.