Measuring sustainable agriculture on a national scale

Zhang, Xin; Yao, Guolin; Vishwakarma, Srishti; Davidson, Eric A.

doi:10.1002/essoar.10502709.1

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“…This is particularly crucial for food production, which causes varying environmental impacts across food types and regions 10 . Previous global studies have made efforts to assess environmental (as well as economic and social) impacts caused by agriculture through building multi-indicator databases 5,[11][12][13][14][15] (S.I Table 1).…”

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“…However, few are spatially-explicit below the national level 11,13,14 , which is insu cient for evaluating regionally-speci c environmental impacts, such as biodiversity and water stress [16][17][18] . Additionally, many use embedded indicators that are weak and may not be scienti cally evidence-based 19 ; often relate to resourceuse intensities rather than environmental impacts 14 ; measure over different time periods 13 ; relate to agriculture as a whole rather than to speci c foods 11,[13][14][15] ; lack indicators relating to biodiversity loss (particularly eutrophication indicators 12 ) 5 ; or are not entirely spatially-explicit 12 . Multi-indicator databases have often been aggregated into single scores to produce indexes.…”

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PLANTdex: An index to assess the multi-dimensional environmental impact of global crop commodities

jwaideh

Dalin

2023

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This study presents the croP environmentaL sustAiNabiliTy index (PLANTdex), one of the first spatially explicit (5 arcmin resolution) indexes to measure environmental impacts caused by the production of sixteen crop commodities globally. PLANTdex comprises five globally standardized environmental impact intensity indicators developed from robust spatially-explicit environmental models related to climate change, water stress and terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity loss. Due to variations in PLANTdex, the index was able to differentiate production system efficiencies and environmental sensitivities, locating environmentally sustainable and unsustainable production globally. Due to PLANTdex's build, the index identified a more significant number of synergies (e.g., between biodiversity indicators) existed than trade-offs (e.g., between biodiversity-related GHG emissions and marine biodiversity loss) between indicators. The analysis identified over 32 regions that could collaborate on agricultural management strategies based on production, physical characteristics and environmental impact sensitivities that allow for the exchange of knowledge on sustainable agriculture. PLANTdex has the potential to support initiatives such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and E.S.G. strategies at the due diligence stage.

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