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The purpose of this indicator is to offer a complete breakdown of who small-scale producers are, what they earn and how much they produce; works with indicator 2.3.1.

This Indicator measures income from on-farm production activities, which is related to the production of food and agricultural products. This includes income from crop production, livestock production, fisheries and aquaculture production, and from forestry production. The indicator is computed as annual income.

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Annual

International Dollars at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP $)

The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda has emphasized the importance of enhancing income of small-scale food producers, as these producers play an important role in the global production of food. The indicator monitors progress in this area, where the target is to double income by year 2030. The enhancement of income of small-scale production units also has implications on poverty reduction, as small-scale food producers are often poor, and are frequently found to be close to subsistence conditions

Small-scale food producers are defined as those falling in the intersection of the bottom 40 percent of the cumulative distribution of land, livestock and revenues.

Tropical Livestock Units are a conversion scale used for standardization and measurement of the number of livestock heads.

The computation of income is based on the resolution adopted by the 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). Income should be computed by deducting from revenues the operating costs and the depreciation of assets.

Indicator 2.3.2 must be disaggregated by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size. The overall SDG Target 2.3 requires specific focus on women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers. For this reason, the indicator must be disaggregated by sex, type of enterprise and by community of reference.

Given i agricultural activities, including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry activities, and j [1,…,n] small scale food producers defined as in the first section as a subset of all N [1,…,k] food producers, the SDG indicator 2.3.2 must be computed using the following formula: 

•          V^tij  is the physical volume of agricultural product i sold by the small-scale food producer j during year t; 
•          P^t_ij is the constant sale price received by the small-scale food producer j for the agricultural product i during year t; 
•          𝐶^t_ij is the production cost of agricultural product i supported by the small-scale food producer j during year t;
•          𝑛 is the number of small-scale food producer.

Average income of small-scale food producers helps the Government and other agencies realise the impact of small-scale farming on the economy. Small-scale farming creates employment and contributes to rural development, preserving ecosystems due to small farmers combining various plants, trees and animals on the same piece of land. Small scale farming creates a market for services and goods in the country which benefits other sectors of the economy in ways that increased incomes for large landowners do not.

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