Agricultural production land with soil degradation
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Percentage of agricultural production land experiencing soil degradation, including erosion, loss of fertility, salinisation in irrigated areas or waterlogging.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Single value
- Unit
- % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period for which agricultural production land is assessed
- Aggregation
- Agricultural production land experiencing soil degradation divided by total agricultural production land, expressed as a percentage
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Soil condition and degradation
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Agricultural production land within the organization-defined assessment boundary
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
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- TNFD Food and agriculture guidance Version 1.0 (June 2024), Page 77, Additional sector metrics table, State of nature: Ecosystem condition | Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A5.2
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
- Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period for which agricultural production land is assessed
Unit meaning: Values use % under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Published dimensions
- Soil-degradation factor: erosion, loss of fertility, salinisation in irrigated areas or waterlogging
- Agricultural production-land boundary
- Irrigated-area status where salinisation is assessed
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Percentage
Formula
(Agricultural production land experiencing soil degradation / Total agricultural production land) × 100Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. The candidate defines a reportable ecosystem-condition percentage with an identified agricultural-land denominator and explicit degradation conditions. It is not the same construct as land-degradation impact disclosures, investment exposure, land occupation, total land use or emissions to soil in the existing shortlist.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
L_deg | Agricultural production land experiencing soil degradation | Agricultural production land affected by soil degradation, including erosion, loss of fertility, salinisation in irrigated areas or waterlogging. | same land-area unit as L_ag |
L_ag | Total agricultural production land | Total agricultural production land within the disclosed assessment boundary. | same land-area unit as L_deg |
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
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- TNFD Food and agriculture guidance Version 1.0 (June 2024), Page 77, Additional sector metrics table, State of nature: Ecosystem condition | Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Agricultural production land with soil degradation”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Describe the assessment methodology and criteria used to identify soil degradation.
- Disclose the agricultural production-land boundary and total land denominator.
- Identify degradation factors included and explain the treatment of land affected by more than one factor.
Record-specific limitations
- The source identifies examples of degradation factors but does not prescribe a single soil-degradation assessment methodology.
- Results depend on the definition of agricultural production land, assessment coverage and treatment of overlapping degradation factors.
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.