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Other methodological guidelines

50.2030 paper June 2025

Research on the measurement of harvest and post-harvest losses: On-farm storage loss model to improve national estimates and reduce data collection costs

28/07/2025

Field testing food loss data collection and compiling the Food Loss Index in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Uruguay

05/06/2025

6.4.2 Resource Paper

Incorporating environmental flows into “water stress” Indicator 6.4.2. The role of the environmental management class in the estimation of environmental flow requirements

18/05/2025

The FAO methodology to measure progress towards the achievement of SDG targets and goals

03/12/2024

Water stress plugin for Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP). Using the water evaluation and planning tool for the calculation of Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.4.2

12/02/2024

Sampling and estimation guide for SDG Indicator 2.4.1 under multiframe designs

01/02/2024

Food loss estimation: SDG 12.3.1a data and modelling approach. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 23-39

21/12/2023

Access to food in 2022: Filling data gaps

Access to food in 2022: Filling data gaps

12/07/2023

Methodological note_2.4.1

Methodological note for SDG Indicator 2.4.1

01/01/2023

Change in water-use efficiency over time

Guidelines for the calculation of the agriculture water use efficiency for global reporting. The agronomic parameters in the SDG indicator 6.4.1: yield ratio and proportion of rainfed production

01/01/2022

Guidance on core indicators

Guidance on core indicators for agrifood systems – Measuring the private sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

01/09/2021

Methodological documents and supporting material for SDG Indicator 2.4.1 “Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture”

14/08/2021

502020 guide to 5.a.1

A guide to 50x2030 survey tools and SDG Indicator 5.a.1: Measuring gender parity in ownership and tenure rights over agricultural land

01/02/2021

FAO damage and loss assessment_EN

FAO’s Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to monitor the Sendai Framework’s Indicator C2 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)

01/01/2021

Realizing women's rights to land in the law

Realizing women’s rights to land in the law. A guide for reporting on SDG indicator 5.a.2

01/01/2021

Measuring individuals's rights to land

Measuring Individuals’ Rights to Land: An Integrated Approach to Data Collection for SDG Indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1

01/01/2021

Factsheets on the 21 SDG indicators under FAO custodianship: A highlight of the main indicators with the greatest gaps in country reporting

01/09/2020

Incorporating envrionmental flows into water stress

Incorporating environmental flows into “water stress” Indicator 6.4.2. Guidelines for a minimum standard method for global reporting

01/01/2020

FAO methodology for damage and loss

FAO's methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture

01/01/2020

Step-by-Step Monitoring Methodology: SDG Indicator 6.4.1

30/07/2019