Land Directly Controlled: Treated with Pesticides (OI2569)

Area of land directly controlled by the organization and treated with pesticides. Report directly controlled land area treated during the reporting period.

Reporting Format Unit of Measure (PD1602)
Metric Type Submetric
Metric Level Organization
IRIS Metric Citation IRIS, 2021. Land Directly Controlled: Treated with Pesticides (OI2569). v5.2.

Footnote

Organizations should footnote details on the area of land directly controlled, disaggregated by the hazard level of pesticides used, as listed by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Acute Toxicity Hazard Categories. Organizations should also footnote the source of data. See glossary term and usage guidance for further information.

Usage Guidance

The IRIS catalog differentiates between land that the organization directly controls and land that the organization indirectly controls. This metric is intended to capture the area of land that is under the organization's direct control and that is treated with pesticides.
Organizations can refer to the glossary for additional information on pesticide use and the WHO’s Acute Toxicity Hazard Categories. Organizations that use WHO Class Ia (extremely hazardous) and Ib (highly hazardous) pesticides on directly controlled land should footnote additional details on the relevant land (for example, area applied and crops present) and pesticide use.
Direct control refers to land for which the organization controls land use through direct operation or management, including situations in which the organization's employees cultivate the land directly. Note that land ownership is not always equivalent to control. For example, where land is leased to another entity or individual to cultivate (e.g., a third-party manager), land is only directly controlled if the lease is accompanied by exhaustive criteria for land use.
Such land-use criteria are often included in management plans and legal agreements that also incorporate sustainability principles and typically include termination provisions in the event of poor performance. To the extent that the third-party manager must make minimal, ad-hoc, and discretionary land-use decisions that fall outside the scope of the land-use criteria, the land may still be considered directly controlled by the organization.

Related metrics

This is a submetric of Land Directly Controlled: Total (OI5408), which has 3 other related submetrics.

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Metric History

June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)

Immaterial change. Minor revision to usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released

No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released

No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released

Material change. Glossary and corresponding text in metric's usage guidance modified to clarify the issue of direct control in the case of third-party management of the land.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released

Immaterial change. Minor revision to metric name and definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released

Immaterial change. Area Treated with Pesticides (OI2569) replaced Area Treated with Agrochemicals OI2569). Minor revision to definition language and metric name for clarity.
February 2011 - IRIS v2.1 Released

No change.
September 2010 - IRIS v2.0 Released

Immaterial change. IRIS ID changed due to framework upgrade. Minor revision to definition language for clarity.
September 2009 - IRIS v1.0 Released

New metric. Area Treated with Agrochemicals (A11.1) was developed via the Original IRIS Working Group.

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