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Relative to 2021, the total area under organic farming in the Netherlands this year has increased by 3.6 percent to slightly over 80 thousand hectares. This is 59.0 percent more than in 2015.

To ensure that everyone can share in the combination that the earth offers and the prosperity it can generate, and to ensure that the quality of life is improved for as many people as possible, the...

Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region

This edition highlights the sustainability aspects of Dutch trade by means of environmentally friendly and polluting goods. Interconnectedness in global value chains and the import foodprint are...

Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

In 2021, most types of agricultural emissions were lower than in 1995, in spite of higher agricultural output. Reduction of greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions has stagnated in recent years.

The majority (79 percent) of businesses have implemented measures this year to make their operations more sustainable.

As of 2023, the agricultural area devoted to arable crop farming has increased by 14.4 thousand to 549 thousand hectares.

Quality of life in the Netherlands today, well-being ‘here and now’, is high. However it not just as high for everybody in the country; well-being of young adults is lower than for the rest of the...

Milk supply by dairy farms, production of butter, cheese, milk powder, concentrated milk and whey powder

Dutch 25 to 34 year-olds experience lower levels of well-being than people in other age groups.

25 September 2023 is SDG Action Day.

In 2022, renewable energy accounted for 15 percent of gross national energy consumption. This was still 13 percent in the previous year.

Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius are on the right track in terms of poverty reduction, one of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The number of pig-producing farms has decreased by 12.0 percent from over 4 thousand in 2019 to 3.6 thousand in 2020.

In 2008, more than 11 thousand farm successors were ready to take over an agricultural or horticultural holding; 8.5 percent of them were women, as against 6.8 percent in 2000.

Second measurement of the Netherlands' progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Renewable energy; avoided use of fossil energy energy sources/techniques, energy application

Renewable energy; final consumption energy sources/techniques, energy application

Production and capacity of renewable energy Hydro power, wind energy, solar energy, biomass

How is well-being in the Netherlands developing? The Monitor of Well-being & the SDG’s 2022 examines the economic, ecological and social aspects of well-being in the Netherlands and the results for...

The results of a study into the SDGs and the circular economy, about how these different perspectives can influence each other positively or negativelyare