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MetricWater scarcity in agricultural supply chains

Agricultural products and animal feed from water-scarcity areas

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports the share of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from areas with high or extremely high baseline water scarcity.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Single value
Unit
% of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Percentage of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from areas classified as having high or extremely high baseline water scarcity.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Water scarcity in agricultural supply chains
Controlled domain
Water and marine resources
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Agricultural products and animal feed produced or sourced by the organization during the reporting period.

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 Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Source evidence
    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 Additional Sector Guidance, p.74, Section 3.2, Table 11, row FA.C3.0 | p.74, §3.2, Table 11, FA.C3.0
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    FA.C3.0
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    p.74, §3.2, Table 11, FA.C3.0
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
% of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: Values use % of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.

Published dimensions

  • Product category: agricultural product or animal feed
  • Value-chain relationship: produced or sourced
  • Water-scarcity classification: high or extremely high baseline water scarcity
  • Geographic source area

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Percentage

Formula

(Agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from areas of high or extremely high baseline water scarcity ÷ total agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced) × 100

Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. FA.C3.0 is a standalone percentage outcome concerning the geographic water-scarcity exposure of agricultural products and animal feed. It is not the same construct as water withdrawal or water consumption in scarcity areas, which measure operational water volumes rather than product or feed sourcing exposure.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
Q_scarcityQualifying products or feedAgricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from areas classified as having high or extremely high baseline water scarcity.same quantity unit as total products or feed
Q_totalTotal products or feedTotal agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced within the stated reporting boundary.same quantity unit as qualifying products or feed

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 Additional Sector Guidance, p.74, Section 3.2, Table 11, row FA.C3.0 | p.74, §3.2, Table 11, FA.C3.0

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Agricultural products and animal feed from water-scarcity areas”.

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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).

  • Identify the baseline water-scarcity classification or source used to identify high and extremely high water-scarcity areas.
  • Describe how product origin and sourced-product locations are determined.
  • State whether the reported population covers produced products, sourced products, or both.

Record-specific limitations

  • The result depends on the water-scarcity classification applied to source areas.
  • The result depends on traceability of product origin and sourcing locations.

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.