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 Business
Agroecology
Criteria
Tool

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 B- About the Business
ACT Plan
Applicant Name: ABCD

Date: 27/10/2023

Budget: 10000000

Key Beneficiaries
What kinds of people or organisations are you
ultimately trying to benefit? Beneficiaries do not Individual farmers, Farmers Oragnizations, Industries and Food Process
have to be your direct customers, or even your users,
but they are the people or organisations that should
benefit in the long run.

geographical locations
State where the business operations occur, e.g.of
the
The Companies headquarter is located in Bangalore (Karnataka). The pr
out in Tamil Nadu and processing operation will be taken in Karnataka w
enterprise, is headquartered in a capital city X but production location.
most operations occur in a region Y, 200km away.

within the Food Value

Chain
Examples:
Agricultural Seeds, feed, fertilisers, plant protection Training and
Inputs
Agricultural Farming Education
Research and
Production
Food Processing Instant soups, dairy Development
Financing Services
Packaging Meat packaging, soft drinks packaging Community Building
Storage Storage of agricultural produce Technology
Transport Transport of agricultural food product by air, road, Organisation
Policy Change
rail, water
Trading of agricultural inputs
Trading Food and Agricultural
Retail Grocery stores, online food marketplaces Support
Business Services
Support
Food Service Restaurants, catering services
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Agroecology
Criteria
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ns, Industries and Food Processing Units etc.

n Bangalore (Karnataka). The production operation would be carried

tion will be taken in Karnataka which will be 200 kms from the

Examples:
and Technical assistance provision, food literacy
nand training
Scientific research into agroecology, development
ment of new bio-fertilisers
Developing new financing mechanisms to
ity Building fund agroecological
Platforms enterprises,
connecting different food funding
value chain
stakeholders,
Supply chain CSAs,
trackingcooperatives
platform, data management
gy
tion software, production of on-farm sensors or robotics
Lobbying, sustainable food policy advisory
Agricultural Services to help farmers reduce food losses,
Services farmland conversion services,
Business development support,sustainable
incubationtrading
or
acceleration services
 B-ACT Questions -
Principle

Instructions

Principle of Agroecology

1 Recycling
Will the proposal help farmers substituting
Will the proposal
synthetic fertilizershelp farmers
with using
alternate soilofinputs?
green
manure, such as leaving cover crops or other plants
Will
in thethe proposal
field help farmers
to decompose recycling
therefore reducing
This
wastewater for agricultural or otherharvesting
includes primary waste from uses?
residues, secondary waste from processing
industries
Will
Will the (e.g. using
the proposal
proposal helpagro-forestry
help farmers products)
farmers adopting
adopting any or
practices
that mitigate
practices thatgreenhouse gas emissions?”
enhance recycling of biomass
residues, biomass waste, and organic matter?

2 Input Reduction
Will the proposal help farmers improving water
efficiency
fumigants or or reduced overall water
use of veterinary use of your
drugs?
enterprise’s activities?
This category includes general integrated pest
Will the proposal
management (IPM)help farmers reducing
programmes synthetic
or general
consumption with improved technology,
fertilizer application and use of animal feed?
equipment, or through using renewable, low-carbon
of seedssources?
energy used, either through improved or more
Will the proposal
efficient applicationhelp
or farmers
storage managing
of seeds, ortothrough
reduce
losses during harvesting, processing, storage, or
reduce the use
post-harvest of external
through inputs
the use of at technologies
of better least two of
the following categories - water, pesticide,

3 Soil
Will theHealth
proposal support farmers using cover
crops to improve overall soil condition, reduce
or incentivize
erosion othersincrease
or run-off, to do so?
soil organic matter, or
This category includes general or other reduced
4 Animal Health
Will the proposal help farmers taking steps to
improve livestockhelp
Will the proposal health, or made
farmers any other
ensuring that efforts
to support
animals
animals arelivestock
are providedwell-being?
provided with
with ready access toliving
an appropriate fresh
water andproposal
environment
Will the a diet tohelp
maintain
including fulltaking
shelter,
farmers a health and vigour?
comfortable
proactive
restingtoarea,
steps help and
avoidsufficient time outside
animal pain, (where
injury and/or
animals
disease? are provided with sufficient space, proper
facilitiesare
animals andprovided
companywith of the animal’s living
appropriate own kind to
conditions
animals, and receive
including thosesufficient
used fortreatment to avoid
dairy, meat, or
fibre production and farm operations (e.g. dogs

5 Biodiversity
agroforestry and/or the principles of agroforestry in
Will the practices
farming proposal help
(i.e., farmers developing
diversified farming and
system
promoting
Will the proposal help farmers ntegratingincluding
local or regional seeds/breeds or
classical
This can breeding
supporting also techniques?
theinclude
integration of native
situations whereor the number
locally/regionally
of crops included is adapted
unclear,crops
but and animals?
excludes cases
Will
where the proposal
theproposal help farmers
second crop farmers practicing
is specified greater
to be a cover
Will the
adoption of a morehelp
complex crop practicing
rotation spatial
system?
diversity through multi-cropping, poly-cropping,
Will the proposal
inter-cropping help farmers
or related protecting or
practices?
enhancing
Will functional
the proposal helpagro-biodiversity?
farmers protecting or
habitat
enhancing local and natural attention
approach, by paying pollinatorsto (and
increasing
their
land-use diversity or diversity at the landscape
Will the proposal help farmers actively conserving
level?
and/or
primary,restoring
untouchednatural bodies
forests, of water,secondary
old-growth wetland,
riparian
forests,
Will areas,
thewetlands,and associated
peatlands,
proposal help habitats?
andcontributing
farmers protected to
grasslands are not cleared nor converted
greater protection of areas of high conservation for
Will
value?the proposal help farmers proactively
identifying and taking action to protect rare,

6 Synergy
Will
or the proposal
encourage help farmers
the cultivation of adopting
cover cropsbiological
for
pest management
weed andthat
practices pesttreat practices?
control?
pest problems rather than
This category includes
preventing their occurrence,coveror
crops grown primarily
biochemical
Will the
pesticidesproposal help
that control farmers cultivating perennial
Will the proposal
crops? help pests by emploing
farmers non-toxic organic or
other low-input
pollination farming
through practices (that
the temporary have notofyet
introduction
been considered) ?
domesticated pollinators (local or exotic) or
Will the proposal
encourage help farmers
the introduction adopting fostering
of pollinating species or
ecological synergies?
farming systems that reduce the use of harmful
This concerns synergies
pest management between
practices relatedand among plants,
to habitat
livestock, aquatic
manipulation, animals, trees,
for instance, soils,
through water and
improved
activities
landscape planning, or when using habitat or
which include land use, land cover
other
carboncomponents
or reducingatGHG the landscape
emissions?level that
This category includes only types of systems where
 7 Economic Diversification
systemic resilience of agroecosystems to extreme
changing environmental
weather events conditions due to climate
or other disturbances?
change (e.g., salinity, average temperatures, new
livelihood resilience
emerging pests to stress and
and diseases), shocks
through (e.g.,
undertaking
economic, weather shocks) by offering diversified

8 Co-Creation of Knowledge
knowledge and/or sharing of knowledge? This
includes promoting
Will the proposal exchanges
promote between farmers,
participatory and multi-
guiding participatory
stakeholder research
approaches to approaches
knowledge OR by
generation
Will the proposal provide or promote greater
integrating
formal
Will theand farmers and education
non-formal
proposal engage other
in oractors' views?
about
promote food
capacity-
production
building forand sustainability
diverse related
stakeholders foodand
within topics?
beyond your organization?
9 Social Values and Diets
This concerns food systems that provide healthy,
Will the proposal
diversified, empower
seasonally people to appropriate
and culturally make more
informed decisions about the quality and type of
policies
food theyand other
hunt, approaches
fish, that and
gather, grow empower
eat? and
supporttogroups
people that have been
feed themselves typically
in dignity, ensuring that
Will
sufficient food is available, that peoplepolicies
the proposal develop and inform and
have the
approaches that allow communities to decide the
Will the proposal
way food actively
is produced, support
traded workers' rights
and consumed?
to free association, collective bargaining and

###Fairness
Will the proposal work on increasing organisational
capacities
Will of farmers'
the proposal takecommunities and other
action to support fair, local
food system
dignified andactors?
inclusive livelihoods for all actors
youth,
engaged orindoes
foodit systems?
support the creation of decent jobs
for youth in the food
suppliers and local hiringand agriculture
practices? sector by
75%
Please note that 'local' is definedacross
of the full-time employees thepart of
as being
organisation
individuals with chronic barriers to employment?-
paid Living Wage (or an equivalent
see this link)?
Depending on the local context, this can refer to
emplotment
people with can implyordifferences
physical of gender,
mental sufficient
disabilities,
and fair payments to suppliers, to social
ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, cover
cost of production, including living wages or
equivalent for any workers throughout the value
###Connectivity
business support to do so?
This includes
value the provision
in your region of support
by connecting related
local to the
producers
development of local food systems, short
with other activities that add value, such as value
Will the proposal
processing, support
packaging, andtopost-harvesting?
grow demand for
seasonal and regional products?

###Land and Natural Resource Governance

policies or public knowledge related to the links
between agroecology
national-level and policies
legislation, global changes, such as
and programmes
that
landreward or otherwise
for a range incentivise
of stakeholders, agroecological
particularly those
with structural barriers to access (e.g., factors

###Participation
company policies that establish closer connections
Will the proposal
between producersdevelop, or inform,
and consumers or encourage
(short
participatory decision-making that aim for a
policies or put
sustainable andinequitable
place incentives aimed at ensuring
foodpartnerships
system?
stakeholder, pre-competitive that help
the equitable governance and traditional rights over
to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise,
technology and financial resources, to support
estions - Agroecolog
Business
Agroecology
Criteria
Tool
This sheet is designed to
assess an enterprise against
Example
the 13 Principles of
Agroecology, which were Direct Indirect Comments
developed by HLPE (2019).
Some enterprises,
particularly farm-based
enterprises, may fulfill
many Principles. Others,
such as enterprises playing
another role along the value
chain, might only fulfill a
couple of principles.
An activity enabled or
Please fill out the sheet in An activity done directly by the incentivised indirectly by the
its entirety, including both enterprise, meaning the enterprise, meaning the
Examples of Principle
direct and indirect enterprise engages with this enterprise, through its actions,
relationships. activity itself. causes others in the chain to
engage with this activity.

Compost, manure, cow dung,

seeds Yes
and leguminous green
manures, crop is sown for No
municipal, industrial waste
water,
rice use slaughter
husk, of desalinated
waste,
No
third generation biofuels,
Increase soil manure,
carbon stock
No
biogas from Organic
through reduced or no tillage,
Recycling of crop residues
No
deep rooting plants
for other uses, wood waste Yes
recycling for construction

monitoring, precision
agriculture, improved No
varietals, reduced
improved wastethat
plant varietal
reduce pesticide
Improved use,
monitoring,
Yes
precision agriculture, more No
efficient use
vehicles, of animal
renewable feed
energy-
powered equipment for water Yes
Optimal seed spacing.
Timely harvest, improved
No
storage facilities, hermetic Yes
bags
using conventional, marker-
assisted breeding or other No

Provide non-living mulch to

conserve soil moisture Yes
Direct seeding, strip tillage
Grazing systems based on
No
forage availability and
demand
Species-appropriate
husbandry No
Species-appropriate
husbandry No Yes
Species-appropriate
husbandry
Species-appropriate
N/A
husbandry, prevention, rapid N/A
diagnosis, treatment
Species-appropriate
husbandry N/A
Species-appropriate
husbandry N/A
Species-appropriate
husbandry N/A

Alley cropping with trees,

coffee agroforestry Yes
No
N/A
N/A
No
operating = direct
Conservation of forest
No
fragments around agricultural N/A
lands
Flower strips
Sustainable shifting
No
cultivation, management of
Riparian Restoration,
N/A indirectdoesnotexist
heterogeneous landscape
Grassed Waterways, Wetland N/A
Restoration
N/A
N/A
N/A

against rodent, introduction

of exotic natural enemies like
suppression
No
No
grow= insect
attract direct pests to traps,
neem spray, wood ashes No
program (perennial wheat…)
systems
honeybees
Yes
employing= direct
No
improvingapplicable
practices pollination
to =
crop/fish/livestock system N/A
Push pull, system of rice
intensification
adequate refuge for pest’s
natural enemies Yes
pollination services,
windbreaks,
through soil erosion
agroforestry
No
N/A
adopting = direct
on the recovery of one or
more ecosystem
Improved locallyservices
adaptedin
Yes
varieties/breeds to future
work type, access to markets,
No
climate conditions
impact of access to local food Yes
on farmer's resilience. Other

to share experiences, bottom-

up models of technology
research designs, integrate
Yes
transfer (participatory ICT
producer’s knowledge of Yes
agricultural
public, biodiversity
access and
to extension,
sensitisation in schools, No
Business skills, IT literacy,
agricultural knowledge No

their specific taste and

nutritional value, scheme that
Policy
No
protect support
culturalor supportive
identity
policy frameworks for No
culturally-adapted food
commercialization,
participation
product in producer
choices.
Yes
No
Subsidies or new distribution
N/A
Yes

associations, capacity to
stand for labour rights, land
promote inclusiveself-
market
N/A
rights, strengthen
systems, fair trade, fair
attractive for youth, structural
Yes
employment, fair treatment
transformation to boost youth Yes
labour demand, promote
N/A
N/A
Workforce development
programme
equitable, trainings for all
employees on topics related

in sustainable operations,
new innovative markets,
finance to smallholders,
participatory guarantee
barriers and opportunities to indirectdoesnotexist
regional
local value generation,
consumption, campaign
indirectdoesnotexist
on the benefits of local and

climate change policy

indirectdoesnotexist
process (UNFCCC, national
services, biodiversity-
indirectdoesnotexist
friendly agricultural
Policies promoting local
public procurement, school
CSO/farmer's organisations'
feeding programs
demands), evidence-based
policy planning,
Recognition support and
of traditional
indirectdoesnotexist
rights over natural resources
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Screening Questio
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Screening questions highlight potential conflicts with the principles
Please select all that apply.

The business plan...

0 Introduces GMOs and associated genome-editing technologies

0 Promotes use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides

0 Promotes extensive single cash crop production (monocultures) at the expense of diversified strategies

0 Focuses exclusively on productivity resulting in avoidable destruction of vital ecosystems and their services
Actively promotes regulations/actions that hamper/destroy local and farmer-managed seed systems (e.g.
0 promoting intellectual property rights of natural resources such as e.g. patenting of seeds, traits, )

0 Focuses on the large-scale intensification of animal production (factory farming)

0 Excludes or discriminates against women and other marginalised groups

0 Focuses exclusively on promoting highly processed, industrially produced foods (with low nutrient value)

0 Promotes extractive raw material production without some local value addition

0 Promotes approaches that violate rights, including customary rights

0 Results in the displacement of local populations and/or land and resource grabbing

0 Ignores free prior and informed consent of affected local communities

0 Blocks participation of affected local communities

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Agroecology Dashboard

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Business Plan Agroecology Sco

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 Breakdown
The breakdown of principles that form an scores per principle
A progress bar of your sc
agroecological organisation. based on the

Category Percentage
Agroecology 13.7%
efficiency Agroecology 19.2%
Recycling Improve resource effic 16.7%
Input Reduction Improve resource effic 21.4%
Strengthen resilience Agroecology 12.1%
Soil Health Strengthen resilience 16.7%
Animal Health Strengthen resilience 11.1%
Biodiversity Strengthen resilience 5.9%
Synergy Strengthen resilience 10.0%
Economic DiversificatiStrengthen resilience 33.3%
Secure social equity Agroecology 12.8%
Knowledge Secure social equity 25.0%
Social Values and DietSecure social equity 18.2%
Fairness Secure social equity 15.4%
Connectivity Secure social equity 0.0%
Governance Secure social equity 0.0%
Participation Secure social equity 0.0%

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Recommendations
Text Prompt
external for Improvement
shocks, and improve environmental
Principles Recycling performance
and energy, as well as material use, like seeds,
Input reduction fertilizers,
crops betweenand feed.
crop rotations, reducing soil tillage,
Soil health and
shocks, while reducingtechniques,
improved grazing among others.
their environmental
Animal Health footprint.
rotations, farm diversification, local habitats, and
Biodiversity utilizing
perenniallocally
crops,adapted crops.
optimizing lifestock nutrient flows,
Synergy and sequestering soil carbon.
services that add resilience to heavy winds and
Economic diversification rainfall.
together, and providing education throughout the
Co-creation of supply chain. groups, and increasing food
knowledge and vulnerable
Social values and diets sovreignty.
and inclusion, and generating more jobs, particularly
Fairness for rural youth.
processing and other value-adding activities, and
Connectivity encouraging
services, andseasonal
influencingandpolicy
regional demand
levers for. to
that work
Land and natural steward natural resources.
resource governance; equitable governance, giving the voiceless influence
Participation
associated genome- on policy,
time, and negatively
and can improving impact
producer-consumer
regional links.
Red flags editing
Promotingtechnologies
of synthetic biodiversity.
organic pollution, increase toxicity, and negatively
fertilizers and pesticides
expense of diversified impact
incomeregional economic
in the medium anddevelopment.
long-term, reduce soil
strategies
vital ecosystems and health, and decrease regional
which threaten long-term productivityfood security.
and
their services
as e.g. patenting of resilience.
around seeds negatively impacts farmers'
seeds, traits, )
production (factory independence and decreases
which can dramatically reduceoverall crop diversity.
costs and
farming) environmental impact.
 other marginalised discrimination reduce community cohesion and
groups
produced foods (with social welfare.
outcomes, making poor use of the resources and
low nutrient value) crops throughout
without some local value the region to retainthe value
more ofchain.
the value of those
addition
including customary resources.
they are critical to uphold by any enterprise looking
rights
populations and/or land to makeresources,
people, a positive impact.
and communities, and should not
and resource
affected local grabbing occur.
Their voices and stake in the outcomes are critical to
communities
affected local engage with. impacted by a solution should be able
communities
communities to participate in decision-making that affects them.
consequences in the the solution, the materials and supply chain it uses,
Systemic Negative future
negatively affecting or how it the
property, solution
using is scaled. standards and open
well established
value chain protocols, and eliminating single points of failure.
[Lack of] Systemic Positive positive impact identify where the enterprise might be able to have
Impact questions
to all 3 scaling influence on one
are alternative or more
ways of them
to scale in the future.
the impact, also
[Lack of] Scaling approaches approaches without having to grow the enterprise itself.
Stakeholders Targeted Dropdown Values
Direct ActivitieEnabling ActivitKey Group Scale Units Options
None None None Low
Agricultural Training and households Medium: 100 - 999
Inputs Education Local food Medium
and their
Nr. of farms
Agricultural Research and Nr. of local High: 1000
Medium: 10- -9999
99
system High
Production
Food Development
Financing International entrepreneurs High: 100 - 9999
national/inter Medium: 10 - 99
entrepreneurs Very High
Processing Services
Community Entrepreneur national
Nr. of High:
9999 100 - 9999
Packaging Consumers
Building
Technology consumers High: 10000 - 99999
Storage Civil Society N/A N/A
Organisation
Transport Policy Change Government N/A N/A
Agricultural
Trading Other N/A N/A
Support
Business
Retail
Support
Other
Food Service
Options2 Carbon Intensity
Metric tons COTotal metric ton of product
Targeted Metric tons CO2e per $ value-added
Metric tons CO2e per metric ton of product
Metric tons of CO2e per liter of product
Metric tons CO2e per unit FTE employee
Metric tons CO2e per unit of production
Metric tons CO2e per unit of service provided
Agroecology scoring possible
AE Area Principle points Number of NA (+0)
Improve resource efficiency Recycling 12 0
Input
Improve resource efficiency 14 0
Reduction
Strengthen resilience Soil Health 6 0
Animal
Strengthen resilience 14 5
Health
Strengthen resilience Biodiversity 25 8
Strengthen resilience Synergy
Economic 22 2
Strengthen resilience Diversificatio 6 0
Co-Creation
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Secure social equity 8 0
of Knowledge
Social Values
Secure social equity 12 1
and Diets
Secure social equity Fairness 16 3
Secure social equity Connectivity 4 0
Natural
Secure social equity 4 0
Resource
Secure social equity Participation 7 0

Systemic impact scoring

Score 1
Systemic impact potential

# No # Yes: Somewhat
Positive potential systemic effects #NAME? #NAME?
Point allocation #NAME? #NAME?
Points scored: Positive #NAME?
Negative Potential Systemic
Consequences #NAME? #NAME?
Point allocation #NAME? #NAME?
Points scored: Negative #NAME?

Total points - score #NAME?

Points logic Yes: Answer - Yes:

Positive Potential systemic Answer - No Somewhat Medium
effects 0 1 3
Negative Potential Systemic
Consequences 0 -1 -3

Score 2 for Expanding the

Potential
Impact
# No
Potential # Possible
Scaling Up #NAME? #NAME?
Scaling Out #NAME? #NAME?
Scaling Deep #NAME? #NAME?
Total points scored per
category #NAME? #NAME?
Total points - score #NAME?

Answer Points logic

No Potential 0
Possible 1
Some potential 2
High potential 3
Very high potential 4

Target Groups & Scale

Target Group Scale
None Score
Farmers / Farmer households and tTargeted
None 0
Local food system entrepreneurs Targeted
None 0
National/International EntrepreneuTargeted
None 0
Consumers Targeted
None 0
Civil Society Targeted
None 0
Government Targeted
None 0
Other Targeted 0

None Targeted 0
Low 0.25
Medium 0.5
High 0.75
Very High 1
Targeted 1
Sparklines
Entrepreneur Dashboard

Principle Category
Agroecology
Improve resource efficiency Agroecology
Recycling Improve resource efficiency
Input Reduction Improve resource efficiency
Strengthen resilience Agroecology
Soil Health Strengthen resilience
Animal Health Strengthen resilience
Biodiversity Strengthen resilience
Synergy Strengthen resilience
Economic Diversification Strengthen resilience
Secure social equity Agroecology
Co-Creation of Knowledge Secure social equity
Social Values and Diets Secure social equity
Fairness Secure social equity
Connectivity Secure social equity
Land and Resource Governance Secure social equity
Participation Secure social equity
Points Available (# Non- Points Scored (#
NA) Yes) # No or BLANK Percentage
12 2 6 16.67%
14 3 7 21.43%
6 1 4 16.67%
9 1 6 11.11%
17 1 12 5.88%
20 2 13 10.00%
6 2 3 33.33%
8 2 4 25.00%
11 2 6 18.18%
13 2 11 15.38%
4 0 4 0.00%
4 0 4 0.00%
7 0 7 0.00%

Min points
# Yes: Medium # Yes: High Max points possible possible
#NAME? #NAME? 45 -27
#NAME? #NAME?

#NAME? #NAME?
#NAME? #NAME?

Answer - Yes: High

9
 -9

Total points
# High Potential # Some Potential # Very High Potential possible
#NAME? #NAME? #NAME? 12
#NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
#NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

#NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

Farmers / Farmer households and their natural envi-

ronment

Local food system entrepreneurs

National/International Entrepreneurs

Consumers

Civil Society

Government

Other

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

 Civil Society

Government

Other

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

scored and
Points Scored available Points Available
18 -113 131
5 -21 26
2 -10 12
3 -11 14
7 -51 58
1 -5 6
1 -8 9
1 -16 17
2 -18 20
2 -4 6
6 -41 47
2 -6 8
2 -9 11
2 -11 13
0 -4 4
0 -4 4
0 -7 7
Rank
Improvement
5 Rank
area
3 1 Connectivity
Natural
5 2
Resource
8 3 Participation
10
9
1
2
4
7
11
11
11
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urs

urs

ers Scale
Score

ty

nt

er

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

ty

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er

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

B-ACT Glossary
This glossary contains definitions of Agroecology, General
Terms within the tool, and the SDGs or Sustainable
Development Goals.

“Agroecology is building food systems with natural pro

Agroecology social and gender equity of local communities that pro
culturally appropriate diets.” HLPE 201913 Principles b
A comprehensive set of agroecological principles creat
13 Principles of Agroecology Food Security and Nutrition) and internationally recog
agroecology.
Preferentially use local renewable resources and close
1. Recycling and biomass.

2. Input Reduction Reduce or eliminate dependency on purchased inputs a

Secure and enhance soil health and functioning for imp

3. Soil Health organic matter and enhancing soil biological activity.

4. Animal Health Ensure animal health and welfare.

Maintain and enhance the diversity of species, function

5. Biodiversity maintain overall agroecosystem biodiversity in time an

Enhance positive ecological interaction, synergy, integ

6. Synergy elements of agroecosystems (animals, crops, trees, soi
 Diversify on-farm incomes by ensuring that small-scale
7. Economic Diversification and value addition opportunities while enabling them t

Enhance co-creation and horizontal sharing of knowled

8. Co-Creation of Knowledge especially
Build food through
systems farmer-to-farmer exchange.
based on the culture, identity, trad
9. Social Values and Diets Support dignified and robust livelihoods for
communities that provide healthy, diversified, all seasona
actors e
10. Fairness food producers, based on fair trade, fair employment a
Ensure proximity and confidence between producers a
11.
12. Connectivity
Land and Natural
rights.
Strengthen institutional
short distribution arrangements
networks to improve,food
and by re-embedding inc
farmers, smallholders
Encourage and peasant
social organization food producers
and greater as s
participatio
Resource
13. Governance
Participation resources.
consumers to support decentralized governance and lo
food systems.

General Definitions A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released in

Carbon footprint A measure ofindividual,
a particular how cleanorganisation,
our electricityoris.community.
It refers to ho
Carbon intensity released to produce a kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity
A
Carbon sequestration is natural or artificial
more carbon process
intensive, by process
as the which carbon dioxide
by which it’s gi
solid
A or liquid
forest, ocean,form.
or other natural environment viewed in
Carbon sink from the atmosphere.
Enabling Activity An action, product/service, or business model that faci
The ecological process to restore a natural and safe lan
Land Restoration communities.
of living include food, water, housing, education, healt
Living wage Refers to needs
essential a situation in which
including buyersfor
provision (consumers
unexpected or eve
bus
Lock-in Effects manufacturer or supplier for a specific service, and can
Remove from thisorresult any of the new jobs that are no
Net New Jobs substantial
organisms
by the totalare
costs
avoided
amount
inconvenience.
and instead,
of full-time and natural
part-time methods
workers su
Organic used to fertilize the soil and manage pests. The term ca
agricultural system.additives
The focusoris preservatives,
on working with, rath
Permaculture the use of synthetic
diverse and productive landscape that provides
Expanding organisation's impact through typical appro
often
food,
u
m
Scaling Up more customers,
Expanding or more farmland
organisation's under managemen
impact through replication (e
Scaling Out lead)
Expanding organisation's impact by addressing key ba
Scaling Deep change, key infrastructure,
Any material etc.) by living organisms (p
produced originally
Soil Organic Matter goes through the decomposition process.
Systemic Potential Refers to the capacity for an organization to achieve sig
Transformative Potential problem
Used or to the regional
interchangeably witheconomy.
'Systemic Potential'.
discrimination or other societal barriers. This may vary
Underrepresented Groups gender,
name ethnicity,
implies, sexual-orientation,
these consequences areage, disabilities,
not the intended
Unintended Consequences consequences
moisture; can beineither
measured cubicpositive
meters -ormnegative,
3 for onebut
unitaro
Water intensity production of all crop types, excluding relevant subsid

SDG's
Sustainable Development Goals The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of
 Business
Agroecology
Criteria
Tool

s building food systems with natural processes based on the culture, identity, tradition,
er equity of local communities that provide healthy, diversified, seasonally and
opriate diets.” HLPE 201913 Principles below.
ve set of agroecological principles created by the HLPE (High Level Panel of Experts on
nd Nutrition) and internationally recognized as the minimum requirements for

use local renewable resources and close as far as possible resource cycles of nutrients

nate dependency on purchased inputs and increase self-sufficiency.

ance soil health and functioning for improved plant growth, particularly by managing
and enhancing soil biological activity.

health and welfare.

nhance the diversity of species, functional diversity and genetic resources and thereby
ll agroecosystem biodiversity in time and space at field, farm and landscape scales.

ve ecological interaction, synergy, integration and complementarity among the

roecosystems (animals, crops, trees, soil and water).
rm incomes by ensuring that small-scale farmers have greater financial independence
ion opportunities while enabling them to respond to demand from consumers.

ation and horizontal sharing of knowledge including local and scientific innovation,
ugh
ems farmer-to-farmer exchange.
based on the culture, identity, tradition, social and gender equity of local
ed and robust livelihoods for
hat provide healthy, diversified,all seasonally
actors engaged in food systems,
and culturally especially
appropriate diets.small-scale
, based on fair trade, fair employment and fair treatment of intellectual property
ty and confidence between producers and consumers through promotion of fair and
titutional arrangements
on networks to improve,food
and by re-embedding including theinto
systems recognition and support of family
local economies.
holders and peasant
al organization food producers
and greater as sustainable
participation managers by
in decision-making of natural and genetic
food producers and
upport decentralized governance and local adaptive management of agricultural and

he amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of
ow cleanorganisation,
ividual, our electricityoris.community.
It refers to how many grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) are
duce a kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity. Electricity that’s generated using fossil fuels
ificial process
intensive, by process
as the which carbon dioxide
by which is removedcreates
it’s generated from the
CO2 atmosphere
emissions. and held in
,orm.
or other natural environment viewed in terms of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide
phere.
uct/service, or business model that facilitates or empowers another kind of activity.
process to restore a natural and safe landscape for humans, wildlife, and plant
e food, water, housing, education, health care, transportation, clothing, and other
ation in which
including buyersfor
provision (consumers
unexpected or events.
businesses)
It is aare dependent
human on adifferent
right and single from a
or supplier for a specific service, and cannot move to another vendor without
his result
ts or any of the new jobs that are not paid a living wage. Then divide this number
inconvenience.
avoided and instead,
ount of full-time and natural
part-time methods
workers such
fromas12composting
months ago and rotation
(that were of crops
paid bothare
living
e the soil and manage pests. The term can also refer to products that are made without
tem.additives
hetic The focusoris preservatives,
on working with, rather
often usedthan against, natural
in reference processes
to food and to create
personal care a
oductive landscape that provides food, medicine, fuel, and other resources
anisation's impact through typical approaches (e.g.: more units of product/service in a closed-
for
s, or more farmland under management)
anisation's impact through replication (e.g., enabling others to copy or follow your
anisation's impact by addressing key barriers and/or capacity needs (e.g., policy
rastructure, etc.) by living organisms (plant or animal) that is returned to the soil and
oduced originally
he decomposition process.
pacity for an organization to achieve significant change to the foundations of a
he regional
geably witheconomy.
'Systemic Potential'.
or other societal barriers. This may vary by context and by geography and can include
ty, sexual-orientation,
hese consequences areage, disabilities,
not the intendedimmigration background
outcome of the and/or
action taken. low-income
Unintended
can
ured beineither
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of gross understood
value to be negative
added generated because
from the
ll crop types, excluding relevant subsidies on crops . The lower the value of the

e Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 global goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The SDGs are a universal call to a
SDG Goal SDG Number
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.4
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.5
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.2
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.4
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.5
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
3.9
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and prom
4.3
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and prom
4.4
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and prom
4.5
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and prom
4.7
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and gir5.1
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and gir5.5
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and gir5.a
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water6.3
a
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water6.4
a
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water6.5
a
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water6.6
a
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and mod7.2
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and mod7.3
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.3
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.4
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.5
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.6
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.7
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic g8.8
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
10.1
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
11.4
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
11.a
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.2
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.3
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.4
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.5
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.2
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
15.1
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
15.2
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
15.3
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
15.5
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and
15.8
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable16.7
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accoun
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize 17.16
the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
SDG Description
microfinance
1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-rela
other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to s
sufficient food all year round
2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in child
and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters
improve land and soil quality
soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair a
benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and cont
4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including u
4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for e
and entrepreneurship
persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, glo
appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, econ
5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other
financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and mater
proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to
and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropria
6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innov
formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, wit
taking the lead
8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons w
pay for work of equal value
8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibi
worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular wom
precarious employment
10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the nati
11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
planning

12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply ch
harvest losses
12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with
frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and t
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debr
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthe
take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services
wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forest
increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and s
degradation-neutral world
15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect an
of threatened species
control or eradicate the priority species

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
17.16 Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and
expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in partic
1 Recycling
1 Recycling
1 Recycling
1 Recycling
1 Recycling
1 Recycling

2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction
2. Input reduction

3. Soil health
3. Soil health
3. Soil health

4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health
4. Animal Health

5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity
5. Biodiversity

6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)
6. Synergy (managing
interactions)

7. Economic
diversification
7. Economic
diversification
7. Economic
diversification

local knowledge and

global science) and
local knowledge
global science) and
local knowledge
global science) and
local knowledge
global science)

9. Social values and

diets
9. Social values and
diets
9. Social values and
diets
9. Social values and
diets
9. Social values and
diets
9. Social values and
diets
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness
10. Fairness

11. Connectivity
11. Connectivity
11. Connectivity

12. Land and natural

resource governance;
12. Land and natural
resource governance;
12. Land and natural
resource governance;

13. Participation
13. Participation
13. Participation
13. Participation
Agroecology principles - new version
1 Recycling
Directly applies or contributes to increased use of alternative soil
inputs: substituting synthetic
synthetic fertilizers and fertilizers
increasing through
nitrogen alternate
fixation, amendments.
or improving nutrient
availability
Recycles and
residues waste water
waste. forcategory
This agricultural use, or
includes indirectly
energy contributes
generation to it. waste
from organic
and residuesGHG
or reducing only.emissions. This category includes only Gliessman Level 2-type
practices
Applies orwhere the agroecosystem
indirectly is not altered
supports other practices that from its more
enhance simplified
recycling form
of biomass
and organic matter: other recycling of biomass residues and waste

2 Input
of waterReduction
use on farms while maintaining/increasing yields through improved
practices.
disease research in case no other specific practices are mentioned (including
research
of animalaiming to reduce
feed: reduced pesticide use
application or plant-incorporated
of synthetic protectants)
fertilizer or nitrogen leakage,
more efficient use of animal feed.
equipment or through using renewable, low-carbon energy sources (biofuels are
rated separately).
Contributes to reduced seed use: improved or efficient storage and use of
improved planting materials.
Reduced organic waste: reduction of losses through improved technologies and
equipment.
Contributes to improved plant variety and animal breed: improved variety or
breed that reduces the use of external inputs of at least two of the following

3 Soil Health
improve soil drainage, soil structure, alleviate soil compaction, improve overall soil
condition.
practices. This category includes general or other reduced tillage practices that are
not considered in previous categories already.
Applies or incentivises rotational/regenerative grazing: improved grazing
methods/management to improve soil quality and forage yield.
4 Animal Health
Promotes and ensures improved animal welfare and health: improved livestock
Animals are further
health, and provided with to
efforts ready access
support to freshwell-being.
livestock water and a diet to maintain full
health and vigor.
Animals are provided with an appropriate living environment including shelter, a
comfortable resting
Pain, injury, and area,isand
disease sufficient
avoided, if nottime outside by
minimized (where appropriate)
prevention or failing that,
rapid diagnosis and treatment.
Animals are provided with sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the
animal’s own kind to enable their normal behaviors
Animals
dairy, are ensured
meat, conditions
fiber production or and
farmtreatment
operationsthat avoid
(e.g. dogstheir
usedmental suffering
to control
predators, horses used for herding, etc.).

5 Biodiversity
Promotes or applies the principles of agroforestry: diversified farming system
integrating crop production
the development and trees.
and promotion of local, regional, organic seeds/breeds, including
classical breeding.
Integrates or promotes the integration of locally adapted crops/races:
incorporating native or cases
unclear, but excluding locally/regionally adapted
where the second crops
crop and animals.
is specified to be a cover
crop.
Three + crop rotation: adopts or contributes to a greater adoption of a more
complex
Developingcrop
or rotation system
incentivising thewith at least three
development crops. diversified farms:
of spatially
introducing diversity over space by multi-, poly- or inter-cropping.
Directly or indirectly enhances biodiversity: specific attention to protect or
enhance functional
Directly or indirectlyagro-biodiversity.
enhances natural pollinators: specific attention to protect or
enhance local and natural pollinators (and their habitats)
Applies or contributes to a multi-habitat approach: specific attention to increasing
land-use diversity or
Actively conserves diversity
and restoresat natural
the landscape scale
bodies of water, wetland, riparian areas,
and associated habitats.
Ensures that primary, untouched forests, old-growth secondary forests, wetlands,
peatlands, and protected
Actively protects areas of grasslands are not value.
high conservation cleared nor converted for agricultural
Identifies and protects rare, threatened, and endangered species / those of high
conservation value.
6 Synergy
Uses or incentivises the use of biological pest management: pest management
crops
throughspecifically
biologicalfor weedmethods
control control orthat
pestimport,
reduction. This or
enhance category includes
conserve pest cover
crops grown primarily for pest management.
toxic mechanisms (naturally occurring substance). This category excludes
biological
Makes usepest management
or incentivises and crop
increased cover.
use of perennial crops: adoption of perennial
plant species in place of annual crops.
practices: general organic or low-input systems if not considered in other
categories
pollination already.
through the temporary introduction of domesticated pollinators or
introduction of exotic
systems: systems thatdomesticated
integrate less species.
toxic/harmful inputs through practices to
reduce negative impacts which are not yet captured
livestock, aquatic animals, trees, soils, water and otherby components
any other subcategory.
on farms that
optimise ecological functions and ecosystem service delivery.
habitat manipulation: landscape planning (focussed on habitat) or habitat
management as systemic
benefits agricultural precondition
production. Habitatfor biological pest
conservation control.
around agricultural lands,
landscape-scale management interventions.
category includes only Level 3-types of systems where the agroecosystem is
fundamentally redesigned.

7 Economic
resilience ofdiversification
food systems and measuring the impact of management on the
recovery of one or more
new emerging pests and ecosystem services in response
diseases), development to that
of adapted disturbance.
system to future
conditions.
Ensures greater livelihood resilience: offering diversified income, production and
access to market to be resilient against stress and shocks (economic, weather...).

8 Co-Creation
experience of Knowledge
to research - Embracing
(through local knowledge
specific participatory and global
research science.
design), support
for farmer-researcher networks
Makes knowledge generation participatory by integrating multiple stakeholders
into decision-making,
Provides learningand
educational services andrelated
collaboration.
activities about the topics of food
production and consumption: Both formal and informal.within and beyond the
Active capacity-building occurs for diverse stakeholders
organization.

9 Social values
culturally and diets
appropriate diets, support and protect cultural identity and values tied
to food systems.
Makes sure people can access -- hunt, fish, gather, grow and eat - food that is
culturally
developingappropriate,
and informingboth in quality
policies and and type.
organisational approaches that empower
women or vulnerable groups (including youth).
themselves in dignity, ensuring that sufficient food is available, that people have
the meansfood
Promotes to access it, and that
sovereignty: it adequately
developing meets the
and informing individual's
policies dietary needs.
and approaches
that allow
Actively communities
supports workers'to decide
rights tothe way
free food is produced,
association, traded
collective and consumed
bargaining and
worker-formed associations.

10 Fairness
Strengthens organisation's capacities to self-organise, protect land, trade and
labour
Equity, rights.
dignity, inclusion: support fair, dignified and inclusive livelihoods for all
actors
Creating decentin
engaged food
jobs forsystems.
rural youth based on agriculture: developing policies,
novel approaches and incentives forand
Structurally supports local suppliers decent
localjob creation
hiring, forisrural
'local' youth
defined as being part
of the same community.
At least 75% full-time employees across organisation are paid Living Wage (or
equivalent).
Structurally provides high quality jobs or professional development for individuals
with chronicimmigration
disabilities, barriers to employment.
background and/or low-income status) through specific
hiring practices.
workers and equivalent income to farmers/enterprise owners, plus reinvestment
in farm/enterprise.

11 Connectivity
and consumers: assisting in the development of local food systems, short value
chains
local orand webs,level,
regional developing trading
including relationshipsprocessing,
post-harvesting, with local growers
packaging.
Encourage greater seasonal and regional demand: action supporting a stronger
seasonal and regional demand

12 Land and and

agroecology natural resource
other governance
policy processes tackling global changes, such as climate
change.
structures that protect biodiversity and multifunctional agriculture, subsidies and
incentives for ecosystem
market access services.
- for a range of stakeholders, particularly those with structural
barriers to access

13 Participation
producers and consumers, market regulations and other means to allow branding
of differentiated agroecological
Ensures that multiple products.
stakeholders are included in policy-making towards a
sustainable and equitable food system.
incentives, and other approaches that ensure and protect equitable land tenure
systems
Engage inand secured access to
multi-stakeholder, natural resources.
pre-competitive partnerships that mobilize and share
knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to progress agroecology.
SDG
hazardous chemicals and air, water and substantially increasing recycling
and soil pollution
hazardous andand
chemicals contamination
air, water and
and safe reuse globally
substantially increasing recycling
and soil pollution and contamination
increasing recycling and safe reuse and safe reuse globally
number of people suffering from water
globally
losses along production and supply scarcity
management and efficient use of
chains,
hazardsincluding post-harvest
and natural losses
disasters in all natural resources
Production, with developed countries
countries
losses along production and supply taking the lead
management and efficient use of
chains, including post-harvest losses natural resources

of people suffering from water management and efficient use of

scarcity
hazardous chemicals and air, water natural resourcesincreasing recycling
and substantially
and soil pollution
hazardous andand
chemicals contamination
air, water and safeimpacts
adverse reuse globally
on human health and
and soil pollution and contamination
sustainable management and the environment
Production, with developed countries
efficient use of natural
sustainable management andresources taking the lead
Production, with developed countries
efficient use of natural resources taking the lead
losses along production and supply waste generation through prevention,
chains,
resourcesincluding post-harvest
and associated losses reduction,
traditional management recycling and reuse
and efficient use of
knowledge, as internationally agreed natural resources

floods, and strive to achieve a land Production, with developed countries

degradation-neutral world a land
floods, and strive to achieve taking the lead
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2020, protect and prevent the
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international
and safeguardagreements
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hazards and natural disasters in all events and other economic, social and
countries
hazards and natural disasters in all environmental
events and othershocks and disasters
economic, social and
countries
opportunities for value addition and environmental shocks and disasters
40 per cent of the population at a rate
non-farm employment higher than the national average

tertiary education, including disabilities, indigenous peoples and

university
tertiary education, including children in vulnerable
disabilities, indigenoussituations
peoples and
university
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disabilities, indigenoussituations
peoples and
university
and that progressively improve land children in vulnerable situations
proportion of youth not in employment,
and soil quality education or training

resources and associated traditional 5.1 End all forms of discrimination

knowledge,
and safeguardas the
internationally agreed against
world’s cultural all women improve
that progressively and girlsland
everywhere
and soil
and natural heritage
against all women and girls quality
making in political, economic and public
everywhere
nutritious and sufficient food all year life
pregnant and lactating women and
round
and safeguard the world’s cultural older persons
that progressively improve land and soil
and natural heritage
particular women migrants, and quality
those in precarious employment
and that progressively improve land
and soil
levels of quality
decision-making in political, use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end
economic
persons withanddisabilities,
public life and equal child labourofinyouth
proportion all its not
forms
in employment,
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persons with of equal value
disabilities, and equal education or training
pay for work of equal value
persons with disabilities, and equal
pay for work
persons with of equal value
disabilities, and equal workers, in particular women migrants,
pay for work of equal value
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workers, precarious employment
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pay for work of equal value

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participatory and representative Production, with developed countries

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Development Goals at all
in levels
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in particular developing countries
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minimizehealth
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adverse impacts on debris and nutrient
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progressively the lead
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quality
progressively improve land and soil global energy mix efficiency
quality
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 SDG Descriptio Direct Indirect Total Direct Indirect
SDG Goal Number n Yes Yes Yes No
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor andNothe vulnerable, have equal
1 1.4 0 0 0 0 0
1 1.5 1.5 By 2030, 1 0 1 1 2
2 2.1 2.1 By 2030, 0 0 0 1 1
2 2.2 2.2 By 2030, 0 0 0 1 1
2 2.4 2.4 By 2030, 17 0 17 36 55
2 2.5 2.5 By 2020, 0 0 0 3 3
3 3.9 3.9 By 2030, 2 0 2 2 4
4 4.3 4.3 By 2030, 2 0 2 1 3
4 4.4 4.4
4.5 By
By 2030, 0
2030, eliminate gender 0 in education0and ensure equal
disparities 1 access to all
1 levels of edu
4 4.5 0 0 0 0 0
4 4.7 4.7 By 2030, 2 0 2 1 3
5 5.1 5.1 End all 1 0 1 1 2
5 5.5 5.5 Ensure wo 2 0 2 1 3
5 5.a 5.a Undertak 2 0 2 4 5
6 6.3 6.3 By 2030, 2 0 2 2 4
6 6.4 6.4 By 2030, 0 0 0 2 2
6 6.5 6.5 By 2030, 0 0 0 1 1
6 6.6 6.6 By 2020, 0 0 0 0 1
7 7.2 7.2 By 2030, 1 0 1 1 2
7 7.3 7.3 By 2030, 1 0 1 0 1
8 8.3 8.3 Promote 0 0 0 2 2
8 8.4 8.4 Improve progressively,
11 through 2030,0 global resource
11 efficiency 29in consumption
42 and productio
8 8.5 8.5 By 2030, 1 0 1 3 6
8 8.6 8.6 By 2020, 1 0 1 1 2
8 8.7 8.7 Take imm 1 0 1 0 1
8 8.8 8.8 Protect 2 0 2 2 4
10 10.1 10.1 By 2030, progressively
2 achieve and 0 sustain income
2 growth of the
0 bottom 40 per
2 cent of the p
11 11.4 11.4 Strengthpositive economic,
11.a Support 0 social 0and environmental
0 2
links between 4
urban, peri-urban and rur
11 11.a 0 0 0 0 0
12 12.2 12.2 By 2030 5 0 5 7 12
12 12.3 12.3 By 2030 2 0 2 1 3
12 12.4 12.4 By 2020 2 0 2 2 4
12 12.5 12.5 By 2030 1 0 1 0 1
13 13.1 13.1 Strength 1 0 1 2 3
14 14.1 14.1 By 2025, 2 0 2 2 4
14 14.2 14.2 By 2020 0 0 0 0 1
15 15.1 15.1 By 2020, 1 0 1 5 11
15 15.2 15.2 By 2020 0 0 0 0 0
15 15.3 15.3 By 2030 1 0 1 6 10
15 15.5 15.5 Take urg 0 0 0 2 4
 15.8 By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact
15 15.8 0 0 0 0 0
16 16.7 16.7 Ensure 0 0 0 4 2
17 17.16 17.16 Enhanc 0 0 0 1 1
 Total SDG (assumes no (individual (individual (individual (individual
Total No Appearances N/A) subgoals) subgoals) subgoals) subgoals)
0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
3 4 6 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
2 2 3 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
2 2 3 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
91 108 180 32.1% 0.0% N/A 15.7%
6 6 9 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
6 8 12 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
4 6 9 66.7% 0.0% N/A 33.3%
2 2 3 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
4 6 9 66.7% 0.0% N/A 33.3%
3 4 6 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
4 6 9 66.7% 0.0% N/A 33.3%
9 11 18 33.3% 0.0% N/A 18.2%
6 8 12 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
4 4 6 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
2 2 3 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
1 1 3 N/A 0.0% N/A 0.0%
3 4 6 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
1 2 3 100.0% 0.0% N/A 50.0%
4 4 6 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
71 82 135 27.5% 0.0% N/A 13.4%
9 10 18 25.0% 0.0% N/A 10.0%
3 4 6 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
1 2 3 100.0% 0.0% N/A 50.0%
6 8 12 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
2 4 6 100.0% 0.0% N/A 50.0%
6 6 12 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
19 24 36 41.7% 0.0% N/A 20.8%
4 6 9 66.7% 0.0% N/A 33.3%
6 8 12 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
1 2 3 100.0% 0.0% N/A 50.0%
5 6 9 33.3% 0.0% N/A 16.7%
6 8 12 50.0% 0.0% N/A 25.0%
1 1 3 N/A 0.0% N/A 0.0%
16 17 39 16.7% 0.0% N/A 5.9%
0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
16 17 33 14.3% 0.0% N/A 5.9%
6 6 15 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
6 6 12 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
2 2 3 0.0% 0.0% N/A 0.0%
 Percentage using total appeareance Metabolic
SDG Goal Applicable? using SDGs yes s Score
1 Applicable 25.00% 25.00% 4 6
2 Applicable 3.94% 14.41% 118 195
3 Applicable 25.00% 25.00% 8 12
4 Applicable 22.22% 28.57% 14 21
5 Applicable 25.51% 23.81% 21 33
6 Applicable 6.25% 13.33% 15 24
7 Applicable 37.50% 33.33% 6 9
8 Applicable 20.57% 14.55% 110 180
9 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
10 Applicable 50.00% 50.00% 4 6
11 Applicable 0.00% 0.00% 6 12
12 Applicable 32.29% 25.00% 40 60
13 Applicable 16.67% 16.67% 6 9
14 Applicable 12.50% 22.22% 9 15
15 Applicable 3.92% 5.00% 40 87
16 Applicable 0.00% 0.00% 6 12
17 Applicable 0.00% 0.00% 2 3