Poor use of food and agriculture data and statistics has a detrimental effect on evidence-based policymaking, the accountability of national governments to the goals of eradicating hunger, malnutrition, and achieving sustainable agriculture, and business decisions by the farmers, fishers, and the other actors of the food system — all weakening a country’s prospects for achieving the SDGs. NSOs need to break their traditional confines of disseminating figures and statistical yearbooks to also become their own data intermediaries and add value to underlying data.
