The main purpose of Agricultural Typology is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in vulnerable regions by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector. Since the objective of the typology is to systematize the way in which analytical information is presented, it is necessary to specify the criteria used to group the estimates for agricultural potential, agricultural efficiency, and poverty into classes or types. While there are several ways of choosing such criteria depending on specific user needs, the common idea behind this typology approach is based on the Priority, Agricultural potential, Unrealized agricultural potential, and Agricultural efficiency components.
The Unrealized Potential component is the gap between the observed profits/revenues and the maximum achievable profits/revenues (i.e potential). In other words, it denotes how far a given administrative area is from its estimated maximum potential.
