Average Agricultural Yield (PI5935)

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.