COLLECTION
Frameworks for agroecology assessment
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Dated: October 2024
A collection of resources that can be used to assess the use of agroecological principles. Useful to guide the work of planning, assessing or evaluating how agroecological principles or practices are being used. Each resource is also loaded to the resource bank as a separate trove.Each resource is tagged into one of 3 categories:frameworks - the high level conceptual ideas to inform assessment methodsmethodology - specific tools and methodologies for assessmentreview - review or suggestions for assessmentA listing of the resources in this collection can be found here:https://stats4sd.org/download/ae-frameworks-listing_2019-07-12_15:52:52/2019-07-12_15:52:52_ae-frameworks-collection.xlsx/AE%20Frameworks%20Collection.xlsxA brief summary of each resource is provided, along with some editorial comments on the usage and relevance of the resources for a CCRP context.
Infographic
Agroecological principles - CIDSE
Summary:Principles of Agrocecology from International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity putting in pl...
Guide
The 10 Elements of Agroecology
Summary: A useful framework produced by FAO As an analytical tool, the 10 Elements can help countries to oper...
Tool
Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) - Biovision
Summary:The Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) methodology is based on the analytical framework by Gliessman on t...
Journal Article
RISE (Response Inducing Sustainability Evaluation)
Summary: Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation (RISE) developed by Swiss researchers to evaluate sustai...
Tool
SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems)
Summary: Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA). With a view to offer a fair playing...
Tool
NaRIA: Natural Resource Integrity Assesment
Summary: The purpose of the NaRIA Score Card is to provide a rapid assessment of the Natural Resource Integrit...
Tool
SustainFarm Public Goods Tool
Summary: The SustainFARM Public Goods Tool helps farmers assess the sustainability of their farming system wit...
Presentation
Agroecology: how do we measure its social impact
Summary: Presentation for Coventry University, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, considering differe...
Journal Article
Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment
Summary: An academic review of different methodologies used to create sustainability assessment tools, focusin...
Case Study
Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice
Summary: An academic review of different assessment tools, used on the same farms in Denmark. Tools assessed i...
Journal Article
When to use what: Methods for weighting and aggregating sustainability indicators
Summary: An academic meta-review of different methodologies that have been used in publications for sustainabi...
Guide
The Social Return on Investment (SROI) method. How does it work? What are the benefits?
Summary: A description of how to apply the Social Return on Investment (SROI) method in an agroecological cont...