Average agricultural yield per hectare of clients (who were smallholder 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: Smallholder (PI6372).
This metric is intended to capture the average output per hectare for smallholder farmers among an organization's clients.
Organizations should not calculate this metric using aggregate data across all smallholder farmers. Rather, as noted in the calculation, organizations should use smallholder 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 smallholder farmers that help improve yields.
Organizations interested in reporting the yields of supplier farmers should report Average Supplier Agricultural Yield: Smallholder (PI1405).
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. In specific contexts, and based on evidence, this metric may serve as a proxy indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). This metric may also identify a specific the WHO dimension subdimension of impact, which details which stakeholders the investment or enterprise aims to reach with the outcome. This metric may also help clarify how underserved they were prior to the investment. 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 is a submetric of Average Client Agricultural Yield: Total (PI3468), which has 0 other related submetrics.
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and 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 Agriculture Yield: Smallholder (PI9421) replaced Client Crop Yield: Smallholder (PI9421). Minor revision to metric name for clarity.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Immaterial change. Client Crop Yield: Smallholder (PI9421) replaced Client Individual Yield: Smallholder (PI9421). Minor revision to metric name and definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
New metric. Client Individual Yield: Smallholder (PI9421) was developed via the Agriculture Working Group.
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