Average Agricultural Yield (PI5935)

Evaluates average agricultural yield per hectare of the set implied by another metric. For example, this metric applied to Client Individuals (PI4060) would yield the average agricultural yield of the organization's (farmer) clients. Organizations should calculate this metric for each individual agricultural product. See usage guidance for further information.

Reporting Format Decimal
Metric Type Metric
Metric Level Product/Service
IRIS Metric Citation IRIS, 2021. Smallholder Agricultural Yield (PI5935). v5.2.

Footnote

Organizations should footnote all assumptions used, including method for gathering yield data ((e.g., survey to a sample set of clients, survey to all clients).

Usage Guidance

This metric, applied to another metric, is intended to evaluate the average agricultural yield of the set implied by the other metric. Organizations can average actual yield data or survey a representative sample. For example, if evaluating average agricultural yield of client farmers using Client Individuals (PI4060), organizations could average actual yield data per farmer or survey representative individual farmers.
Organizations should report yield separately for each agricultural product, reporting the relevant product with Crop Type (PD1620) or Livestock/Fish Type (PD4686), as appropriate. Organizations should also report yield from the most recent harvest and footnote details on the unit of measure per hectare (such as kilograms or bushels) using Unit of Measure (PD1602).
This metric could be valuable for organizations that sell inputs (such as fertilizer or irrigation equipment) to farmers that help improve yields.
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.

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Metric History

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

Material change. Revision to metric name, definition, and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released

No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released

New metric. Developed via IRIS+ core metrics sets.

Footnote

IRIS Metrics Work Better in Sets