The research was released Tuesday by the Countdown initiative towards 2030 of the Food Systems (FSCI), and aims to provide a science-based monitoring to guide decision-makers, according to a statement released by the FAO press office.

Entitled ‘The State of the World’s Food Systems in the Countdown to 2030’, this work provides tools for the total transformation of them, as well as agricultural systems globally, and in this regard identifies a framework of 50 indicators to track progress.

“Agriculture and food systems play a vital role in meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but the SDGs are insufficient to monitor these systems,” says the note, adding that FSCI will fill this gap with annual monitoring through 2030, updating the framework as needed.

Jose Rosero, director of FAO’s Statistics Division, noted that the initiative is ‘at the beginning of the process and there are still data gaps that we need to fill to ensure that we are effectively monitoring progress in all dimensions of agriculture and food systems’.

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