Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Core food and agricultural indicators for measuring the private sector’s contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

Core food and agricultural indicators for measuring the private sector’s contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

Q-Are the associated indicators adequate to measure private sector entities’ contribution to the SDGs?

Answer: The report is quite comprehensive but I feel private sectors institutional characteristics including innovativeness needs to be captured

Q-If not, where are the gaps?

Answer:

  1. Expenditure on technical training of workers as proportion of revenue;
  2. Sources, uptake and funding of technologies/information/innovation development and dissemination;
  3. Community service or compensation to community of operation;

Q- Would it be helpful to include the specific list of indicators which apply to each type of production, e.g. aquaculture, livestock, crop production?

Answer: No there should be a standard format that can be adopted by all the sub-sectors for ease of reporting.

Best regards.

Margaret.