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MetricNatural commodity production land, ocean, and freshwater area

Area used for production of natural commodities

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports the area controlled or managed by the organization that is used to produce natural commodities, in square kilometres and classified by ecosystem type.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
km2 — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period, with the area measurement date or temporal basis disclosed.
Aggregation
Report area by ecosystem type; do not aggregate locations with materially different natural characteristics without retaining the location and ecosystem breakdown.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Natural commodity production land, ocean, and freshwater area
Controlled domain
Nature, biodiversity and land
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Area controlled or managed by the reporting organization and used for production of natural commodities.

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

    CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026

    area-used-for-production-of-natural-commodities
    Publisher
    CDP
    Edition
    Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Q8.3, numeric field 1
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD LEAP approach

    r025
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.1, October 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    TNFD LEAP Approach v1.1, Annex 1, Table 22, PDF page 163, metric row 5
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    FP.A3.0
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Recommended
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Page 66, Additional sector metrics table, Impact driver—Resource use/replenishment
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD Recommendations

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Page 91, metric A3.4
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD Recommendations

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    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Page 91, metric A3.4
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
km2 — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period, with the area measurement date or temporal basis disclosed.

Unit meaning: Values use km2 under the disclosed TNFD Recommendations method, period, location and reporting boundary.

Table fields and units

  • ecosystem_type
  • natural_commodity_or_production_activity
  • geography_or_location
  • area_used_for_production_km2
  • measurement_date_or_period_basis
  • measurement_method

Published dimensions

  • Ecosystem type: land, ocean, freshwater, or other disclosed ecosystem category
  • Control or management relationship
  • Natural commodity produced
  • Geography, priority location, ecosystem, or biome
  • Area measurement date or reporting-period basis
  • Direct measurement versus estimated or proxy method

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Sum

Formula

For each reported ecosystem type and location, total area used for production of natural commodities equals the sum of included controlled or managed production-area parcels, expressed in km2.

Apply the source-defined TNFD Recommendations method only within the disclosed location, ecosystem and value-chain boundary. A3.4 explicitly defines a reportable area outcome with a stated unit, organizational control-or-management boundary, production-use criterion, and ecosystem-type classification. It is distinct from agricultural production-land metrics because it covers natural commodities and explicitly spans land, ocean, and freshwater ecosystem types. No shortlisted metric matches this full construct and dimensional scope.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
AArea used for production of natural commoditiesTotal included area controlled or managed by the organization and used to produce natural commodities, reported by ecosystem type.km2
a_iIncluded production-area parcelArea of each included controlled or managed parcel used for production of a natural commodity.km2

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 27 August 2026

    Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures

    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Locator
    Page 91, metric A3.4

    Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Area used for production of natural commodities”.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, September 2023.

  • Disclose the definition of control or management used to establish the boundary.
  • Disclose the ecosystem-type classification and the geographic or location basis used.
  • Disclose the natural commodities and production activities included.
  • Disclose the area measurement date or period basis and whether areas are directly measured, estimated, or proxied.

Record-specific limitations

  • The metric measures area used for production and does not itself measure ecosystem condition, biodiversity impact, dependency, risk, or restoration outcome.
  • Ecosystem classifications and geographic aggregation can obscure materially different natural characteristics if not disclosed separately.
  • The supplied evidence does not prescribe a universal area-measurement method or a required commodity taxonomy.

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.