Integrating SDGs into National Agri-Food Policy Frameworks Across Emerging Economies
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the national agricultural policies to ensure sustainable development of the country's agricultural sector, food security, sustainability, and climate change resilience. This paper introduces a new SAIF-MCDA (SDG-AgriPolicy Integration Framework with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis) to measure SDG alignment in national agricultural policies. The SAIF-MCDA framework involves document mining, SDG indicator mapping, statistical normalisation, and MCDA techniques (AHP-TOPSIS) to create the SDG-Policy Alignment Index (SPAI). This work considers five dimensions: SDG coverage, SDG implementation, budget allocation, climate considerations, and technology use. We evaluate the approach using FAO, World Bank SDG Indicators, and data from national agri-food policies in emerging countries. The results show that the SAIF-MCDA approach outperforms baseline models and machine learning algorithms regarding all the sustainability indicators. For the Food Security Index, SAIF-MCDA obtains 94.8%, while baseline models achieve 71.4%. For the Agricultural Productivity Score, SAIF-MCDA achieves 93.5%, exceeding the baseline (69.8%), Random Forest (82.1%), and XGBoost (86.9%). For the SDG 2 Alignment Score, the suggested model achieves 95.2%, indicating strong alignment with Zero Hunger, while the baseline and machine learning models achieve 70.5%, 84.0%, and 88.2%, respectively. Moreover, the Sustainability Efficiency Index increases to 94.1% versus 68.3%, 81.5%, and 85.7% achieved by the baseline, Random Forest, and XGBoost models, respectively. The results show that combining SDG policy-related metrics with multi-criteria analysis makes sustainability assessment more accurate and understandable.
Source: BIO Web of Conferences
Authors: Sandeep Soni, Rajvir Saini
Institution: Kalinga University
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Climate action
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7221761908