Actual and potential crop yield and yield gap by crop type
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports actual crop yield, potential crop yield and yield gap by crop type using the unit permitted by the applicable TNFD sector route, with geography, boundary, potential-yield method and yield-gap convention disclosed.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period for the reported actual and potential crop yields, disclosed by the organisation.
- Aggregation
- Reported separately by crop type; no cross-crop aggregation is prescribed.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Crop production
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Crop production associated with the organisation’s own operations or value chain, limited to the disclosed crop types, production locations, reporting period and organisational or value-chain coverage.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- PDF page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12, FA.A3.0
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2026
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- PDF page 119, Section 3.3, Table 12, AF.A3.0 / FA.A3.0
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A3.0
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12
- Adopting DisclosureAF.A3.0
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2026
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 119, Table 12, AF.A3.0 / FA.A3.0
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period for the reported actual and potential crop yields, disclosed by the organisation.
Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.
Table fields and units
- Crop type
- Production location or geography
- Actual crop yield
- Potential crop yield
- Yield gap
- Yield unit
- Yield-gap definition and calculation basis
- Potential-yield method, model or benchmark
- Organisational or value-chain boundary
Published dimensions
- Crop type
- Yield measure: actual yield, potential yield or yield gap
- Yield unit: source-appropriate unit, e.g. tonnes or kg/km²
- Production location or geography
- Organisational or value-chain coverage
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport one structured crop-yield metric with actual yield, potential yield and yield gap fields while retaining the distinct FA.A3.0 and AF.A3.0 source routes, their permitted units and all required boundary and methodology disclosures.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
Additional sector guidance – Food and agriculture
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Locator
- PDF page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12, FA.A3.0
Supports: FA.A3.0 specifies actual crop yield, potential crop yield and yield gap by crop type in kilograms per square kilometre.
Open official source - Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
Additional sector guidance – Alternative fuels
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2026
- Locator
- PDF page 119, Section 3.3, Table 12, AF.A3.0 / FA.A3.0
Supports: AF.A3.0 explicitly reuses FA.A3.0 for applicable crop-based feedstock activity and permits tonnes or kg/km².
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Identify the crop types included and excluded.
- Disclose the reporting period, production geography and organisational or value-chain coverage.
- Disclose the measurement basis, method and data source for actual yield.
- Disclose the method, model or benchmark, assumptions, reference conditions and data sources used to estimate potential yield.
- Define yield gap and disclose its calculation direction and whether it is reported as an absolute or relative measure.
- Disclose the unit used for each yield field, the applicable TNFD sector route and every conversion or normalisation applied; use one consistent unit basis within each crop row.
- For the Alternative fuels route, explain why crop-based feedstock production, processing or sourcing makes the metric applicable.
Record-specific limitations
- The sources do not prescribe the method, model, benchmark, reference conditions or geography used to estimate potential yield.
- The sources do not define the yield-gap calculation direction or whether it is an absolute or relative measure; the reporting organisation must disclose the convention used.
- The Food and agriculture route specifies kg/km², while the Alternative fuels route permits tonnes or kg/km²; cross-route comparison requires unit harmonisation.
- The sources do not prescribe one organisational, value-chain or geographic boundary beyond reporting separately by crop type.
- Results may not be comparable across crop types, geographies, production systems or potential-yield methods without the accompanying methodology disclosures.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.