The 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals related to agricultural and rural development: proposal of indicators

Abstract

In the contemporary world, the need to guarantee the sustainability of development, seen from an integral perspective, is becoming more and more relevant. In rural areas, whose fundamental economic activity is agriculture, it is urgent to update knowledge, and transform attitudes and practices that make this objective possible. The current Cuban context is also subject to a series of changes and transformations derived from the recent policy approved to guarantee food and nutritional sustainability. From the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a framework of indicators is derived to evaluate the implementation of the SDGs at the international level, the challenge lies in its contextualization. Thus, the objective of the work is to socialize a proposal of indicators related to agricultural and rural development, based on the contextualization of those proposed by the 2030 Agenda. For this, theoretical and empirical methods were used, which allowed their construction, in the interests of enable the mainstreaming of the SDGs in the agricultural sector at the territorial or local level, according to the particularities of the Mayabeque context.