Measuring the Sustainability Performance of Agro-food Chain Initiatives

Résumé du livre

This report has two main aims. The first is to present the method developed and used to evaluate the TransForum initiatives. The basic framework is explained for evaluating the initiatives and discuss the issues to be considered and guidelines for evaluating a specific initiative. The report also presents more general considerations when measuring sustainability performance. The second aim of this report is to attempt to compile a general method for measuring the sustainability performance of initiatives. The method is based on a consistent framework that builds on several important existing methodologies and standards, such as life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental impact assessment (EIA) and global reporting of sustainability (GRI). It consists of an extensive set of indicators and a method for scoring these indicators. We are confident that the chosen approach gives accurate results for the most important indicators in our method. For some ndicators, the approach needs to be developed further.