Average Client Agriculture Yield: Smallholder (PI9421)

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.