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The purpose of this indicator is to measure ownership or tenure rights over agricultural land; to measure the extent of women’s disadvantages in ownership of and rights to agricultural land.

This indicator is divided in two sub-indicators.

Part a) of this indicator is a prevalence measure. It measures the prevalence of people in the agricultural population with ownership or tenure rights over agricultural land, disaggregated by sex.

Part (b) measures the share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Women's Department; Ministry of Agriculture

Annual

Percentage (%)

In compliance with the classification proposed by the World Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020), land is considered ‘agricultural land’ according to its use. Moreover, a reference period is usually required in order to characterize the use of a specific area of agricultural land and identify subcategories.

Agricultural land includes:

• land under temporary crops;
• land under temporary meadows and pastures;
• land temporarily fallows;
• land under permanent crops;
• land under permanent meadows and pastures.

It excludes:

• land under farm buildings and farmyards;
• forest and other wooded land;
• area used for aquaculture (including inland and coastal waters if part of the holding);
• other area not elsewhere classified.

Since this indicator focuses on agricultural land, it excludes all the forms of land that are not considered ‘agricultural’, including land under farm buildings and farmyards.

In addition, this indicator uses ‘agricultural population’ as a denominator, instead of the total population, because tenure rights over agricultural land are relevant especially for individuals whose livelihood relies on agriculture. As a consequence, in the context of 5.a.1, the term ‘agricultural population’ has to be interpreted as equivalent of ‘individuals engaged in agriculture’

This indicator is disaggregated by income level, age group, ethnic group, geographic location (urban/rural), tenure type and type of legally recognized document.

This indicator is calculated using the following formula:

SDG 5.a.1 = (Number of women in agriculture with: Legally recognized document on agricultural land OR the right to sell it OR the right to bequeath it)/(Number of people in agriculture with: Legally recognized document on agricultural land OR the right to sell it OR the right to bequeath it) x 100

This indicator provides a basis for policy measures aimed at securing equal opportunities and access to rights and resources.

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All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.