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Closing the data gap in agriculture through sustainable investment in the data value chain: Realizing the vision of the 50x2030 Initiative

This special section introduces to the SJIAOS readership the work of the 50x2030 Initiative to close the agricultural data gap, a multi-partner program that addresses current shortcomings in the quality and availability of agricultural data by transforming country data systems in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America by 2030. That motivation comes from the need to address documented, persisting gaps in agricultural statistics in lowand lower-middle income countries. Recent assessment by FAO on the ability of countries to report on agricultural SDG indicators, for instance, have concluded that only 50 percent of African countries publish indicators 2.1.1 and 15.1.11 and reporting rates on the other agricultural SDG indicators are less than 30 percent [1]. Similarly, in Asia only slightly more than 50 percent of counties report that indicators 15.1.1, 2.1.1 and 5.a.1 are currently published in national or international databases, while reporting rates on most of the other indicators are less than 40 percent [2]. This lack of good quality and recent data, which is essential