Sustainable farming and food strategy - Indicators to measure progress
Indicators
A set of headline and core indicators has been developed as part of the process of monitoring and evaluating the progress of the Sustainable Farming and Food Strategy. The indicators will record both current state and trend in a range of key areas that the strategy aims to influence and in doing so will measure change and progress towards the outcomes.
The indicators have been selected for being relevant, easy to understand and transparent. Although each indicator relates to an individual aspect of sustainable development, they should be considered collectively in order to measure progress in the three pillars of sustainable development: economic; environmental and social, as well as to highlight any tensions or trade offs between them.
Headline indicators
There are 11 headline indicators which provide broad and high level measures of overall progress towards each of the Strategy’s nine strategic outcomes. These indicators generally reflect the key real-world outcomes and issues and tend to be slow to change. Each indicator has a target set and a trajectory showing the path by which it is expected to achieve that target. These targets and trajectories will play a key role in the process of assessing the overall success of the Strategy.
Core indicators
A set of around 60 core indicators has been developed to support the headline indicators. This is a wide ranging set of indicators which add breadth and depth to the process of measuring change. Some of the core indicators are high level measures similar to the headline indicators which aim to cover key issues that the headline indicators cannot cover. Others provide an additional level of detail below the related headline measure. This is particularly valuable where headline indicators themselves are slow to change.
Read the indicators
Go to http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/indicators (part of Defra's economics and statistics website)
Page last modified:
18 July 2006
Page published: 18 July 2006