1. I feel at least 6-7 SDGs are primarilly relevant to agriculture.
2. It is also possible that agriculture may also influence the attainment of a number of SDGs.
Contributions and ideas welcome!
The contribution that agriculture can make to Agenda 2030 relates to:
- SDG 1 (No Poverty): Rural people make up 70% the world’s extreme poor. So, agriculture can contribute more to reducing poverty than any other sector.
- SDG 4 (Quality Education): Agricultural extension enables farmers to access to the skills, tools, inputs, and knowledge they need.
- SDG 5 (Gender Equality): Women farmers produce 20–30% less than their male counterparts, mostly on account of differences in their access to and use of resources. Because women produce over half the food worldwide, bridging this gap could reduce global hunger.
- SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation): By 2030, the global demand for water will have doubled, with agriculture alone requiring more than what can be sustained to feed the world (even before domestic and industrial needs are met).
- SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy): By 2030, the demand for energy will have doubled, mostly on account of developing countries. More crops are likely to be grown for use as biofuels, doubling or perhaps even tripling as a proportion of total use.
- SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth): In rural areas, agriculture can be an engine of employment and pro-poor economic growth.
- SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production): Average consumption per capita is expected to grow through 2030, even if about one third of what food is produced goes to waste.
- SDG 13 (Climate Action): By 2030, agriculture’s carbon mitigation potential could reach as much as 7.5% of total global emissions, depending on the price of carbon and adoption of agricultural productivity measures.
- SDG 15 (Life on Land): Improving the efficiency of farmland can help meet the demand for food and curtail the conversion of natural habitats and forests for additional cultivation.
- To this list one could add SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) in consideration of the role of urban and peri-urban agriculture and SDG 14 (Life Below Water) if by agriculture we also mean aquaculture and mariculture).
I think, SDG 2 - END HUNGER, ACHIEVE FOOD SECURITY AND IMPROVED NUTRITION, AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE is the mostly relevant goal to agriculture
See my article The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals (also here on Researchgate)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504509.2015.1111269?journalCode=tsdw20
Dear Ibrahim
Almost all the SDGs are relevant to agriculture. The pathway of linkage is either direct ( like in the case of SDG 2 on ending hunger and achieving food insecurity which is linked to agriculture directly) or indirect like SDG 8 on promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth.(which can only be achieved if agricultural growth is promoted including of marginal and small farmers, women headed farmers etc).
At the same time agriculture influences other goals. Goal 10 on Reduce inequality within and among countries can be achieved only if rural-urban disparities, and agriculture-service/manufacturing disparities are addresses. Agriculture is central to achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, as majority of women in developing countries are in agriculture
However, issues of fair trade, caste, race, ethnic and religion based equality have to be put at the center of SDGs for the linkage between agriculture and SDGs to be realized.- calling for a different paradigm of development
SDG 2.4.1 is directly mentioning agriculture. But other SDGs such as 1, 2 and 4 also help attainment using agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture is thread directly or indirectly holding all the SDGs. For example, it is linked directly to Goal 1 (Poverty alleviation), Goal 4 (Education), Goal 5 (Gender Equality), Goal 6 (Water use), goal 7 (Energy use), Goal 8 (Economic growth and employment), Goal 12 (Sustainable consumption and production), Goal 13 (climate) and Goal 15 (Ecosystem management) of the SDGs Sources.
1. The story of Agriculture and sustainable development goals. Retrieved from https://farmingfirst.org/sdg-toolkit#home.
2. Agriculture – a keystone for sustainable development. Retrieved from https://spore.cta.int/en/trends/article/agriculture-a-keystone-for-sustainable-development-sid0a308ecee-ea28-48be-8c7c-0a8c818528d1
To me all of them are related to agriculture but to be specific you have
Goal 2, 3 and 15.
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