Using farm sustainability assessment tools to assess the impacts of diversification (DiverIMPACTS Practice Abstract)
2022
Curran, Michael
A farm sustainability assessment can illuminate challenges (e.g. agrobiodiversity conservation) and highlight strengths (e.g. high productivity). The results can be used for learning, improvement, communication, monitoring or benchmarking. SATs should be easy to use, cover all sustainability dimensions, use qualitative and quantitative data and support strategic decisions (Pintér et al. 2012). At least 19 free SATs emerged in the past decade for farm decision-making (Arulnathan et al. 2020). They differ in goals, criteria, level of detail and ease of use (Coteur et al. 2020). Four examples are shown in Table 1. SATs can facilitate system comparisons and generate useful datasets for research, such as assessing the benefits of farm diversification.
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