Average agricultural yield per hectare of clients (who were farmers) of the organization during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used, including source of data and unit of measure reporting against (such as kilograms or bushels per hectare) using Unit of Measure (PD1602).
NOTE: This metric will be deprecated in a forthcoming update to the IRIS Catalog of Metrics. Users are advised to instead report Average Agricultural Yield (PI5935), applied to Client Individuals: Total (PI4060).
This metric is intended to capture the average output per hectare for farmers among an organization's clients.
Organizations should not calculate this metric using aggregate data across all farmers. Rather, as noted in the calculation, organizations should use farmer-specific data. Organizations should report yield from the most recent harvest and footnote details on the unit of measure.
This metric could be valuable for organizations that sell inputs (such as fertilizer or irrigation equipment) to farmers that help improve yields.
Organizations interested in reporting the yields of supplier farmers should report Average Supplier Agriculture Yield: Total (PI2046).
In some contexts, this metric can serve as an indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.
This metric has 1 related submetrics.
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
Immaterial change. Average Client Agricultural Yield: Total (PI3468) replaced Client Crop Yield (PI3468). Minor revision to metric name for clarity.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Immaterial change. Client Crop Yield (PI3468) replaced Client Individuals Yield (PI3468). Minor revision to metric name and definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
New metric. Client Individuals Yield (PI3468) was developed via the Agriculture Working Group.
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