Description: Percentage of local crops and breeds and their wild relatives, classified as being at risk, not-at-risk or at an unknown level of risk of extinction (SDG 2.5.2).
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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Percentage of local crops and breeds and their wild relatives, classified as being at risk, not-at-risk or unknown level of risk of extinction
Indicator purpose

The purpose of this indicator is to help halt the loss of biodiversity by safeguarding local crops and breeds and their wild relatives.

Abstract

The indicator presents the proportion of livestock breeds classified as being at risk, not at risk or of unknown risk of extinctions at a certain moment in time, as well as the trends for those percentages.

Data source

 

Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

 

Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)

Date last updated
30-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Biennial

Unit of measure

Percentage (%)

Other characteristics

The indicator has a direct link to “biodiversity” as animal or livestock genetic resources represent an integral part of agricultural ecosystems and biodiversity as such. Further there are indirect links to “malnutrition”: Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture are an essential part of the biological basis for world food security and contribute to the livelihoods of over a thousand million people. A diverse resource base is critical for human survival and well-being, and a contribution to the eradication of hunger: animal genetic resources are crucial in adapting to changing socio-economic and environmental conditions, including climate change. They are the animal breeder’s raw material and amongst the farmer’s most essential inputs. They are essential for sustainable agricultural production. No increase of the percentage of breeds being at risk or being extinct is directly related to “halt the loss of biodiversity.

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

Food security is defined as “Availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices.” (United Nations. 1975. Report of the World Food Conference, Rome 5-16 November 1974. New York)

Disaggregation

is by country.

Key statistical concepts

Officially appointed national focal points report through DAD-IS. DAD-IS is the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System maintained and developed by FAO. DAD-IS calculates the risk level of local breeds automatically based on population size data provided by the national focal point. Where such data can be found:

  •  Livestock Censuses on breed level
  • Breeders associations
  • Key-informants and rapid appraisals
Formula
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OTHER ASPECTS



Recommended uses

Enabling frameworks for the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture urgently need to be established or strengthened. Legal, policy and institutional frameworks need to be established for the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.

Limitations

Breed-related information remains far from complete. For almost 60 percent of all reported breeds, risk status is not known because of missing population data or lack of recent updates.

Other comments

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/.