Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis

The two downloadable datasets provide background information and context to findings in the Working Paper, "Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis."

This working paper is Installment 6 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future.

Downloads and Resources

  • Supplementary Workbook: Landscape of Existing ...XLS

    This workbook provides background information and context to the findings of the the World Resources Institute's Working Paper "Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis." It presents a summary of the reports, indices, and datasets that were reviewed as part of an extensive study to find and identify the best available indicators of environmental sustainability in agriculture. It also includes profiles of the relevant indicators that were identified during the study.

  • Supplementary Workbook: Evaluation of Candidate ...XLS

    This workbook provides background information and context to the findings of the World Resources Institute's Working Paper "Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis." It presents a list of possible indicators of environmental sustainability in agriculture that were considered as part of the analysis, as well as the results of an evaluation of the suitability of indicators against a defined set of criteria.

Description

The spreadsheet “Evaluation of Candidate Indicators of Environmental Sustainability of Agriculture” presents the complete list of candidate indicators that were considered in the scoping analysis as well as the results of an assessment that determined the suitability of these candidate indicators against a defined set of evaluation criteria.

The spreadsheet “Landscape of Existing Agri-Environmental Indicators” details the reports, indices, and datasets that were reviewed as part of a literature review to find and identify the best available indicators of environmental sustainability in agriculture.

Cautions

The literature review that produced the inventory of reports, indices, and datasets detailed in these spreadsheets was conducted between December 2012 and April 2013 and therefore reflects the information available at this time and may not be exhaustive of all available resources.

Citation

Reytar, K. et al. 2014. "Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis." Working Paper. Installment 6 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future. Downloadable data set. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.  Available online at:

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License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Full license text available at Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Metadata

Project: World Resources Report

Page Last Updated: August 19, 2016

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