Cropland with natural vegetation
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports the shares of in-scope cropland that maintain at least 10% and more than 20% natural vegetation per square kilometre of cultivated area.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- % of cropland area — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Not specified in extracted source
- Aggregation
- Percentage of cropland area meeting each natural-vegetation threshold
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Ecosystem condition
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Cropland under the reporting organisation's control, management or sourcing boundary; measured per square kilometre of cultivated area
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
- Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table, State of nature: Ecosystem Condition | Source specification: report the share of cropland under control, management, or sourcing that maintains at least 10% natural vegetation per square kilometre of cultivated area, and the share exceeding 20% natural vegetation per square kilometre. | Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem Condition
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A5.1
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
- % of cropland area — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Not specified in extracted source
Unit meaning: Values use % of cropland area under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Natural-vegetation threshold
- Share of cropland area meeting threshold (%)
- Cropland relationship/boundary
- Geographic coverage
- Methodology note
Published dimensions
- Natural-vegetation threshold: at least 10% per square kilometre of cultivated area
- Natural-vegetation threshold: more than 20% per square kilometre of cultivated area
- Relationship to cropland: controlled, managed or sourced
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Percentage
Formula
Share_t = (A_t / A_cropland) × 100, for each threshold t ∈ {natural vegetation ≥10%, natural vegetation >20% per km² of cultivated area}.Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. The source specifies two independently reportable threshold-based percentages with a common cropland population and denominator. They are retained as one structured metric family rather than flattened into one percentage or merged with unrelated vegetation metrics.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
Share_t | Cropland share meeting threshold t | Percentage of cropland meeting the applicable natural-vegetation threshold. | % |
A_t | Cropland area meeting threshold t | Area of in-scope cropland with natural vegetation meeting threshold t per square kilometre of cultivated area. | area |
A_cropland | In-scope cropland area | Total cultivated cropland area within the declared control, management or sourcing boundary. | area |
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
- Food and agriculture Version 1.0 (June 2024), p. 77, Additional sector metrics table, State of nature: Ecosystem Condition | Source specification: report the share of cropland under control, management, or sourcing that maintains at least 10% natural vegetation per square kilometre of cultivated area, and the share exceeding 20% natural vegetation per square kilometre. | 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 “Cropland with natural vegetation”.
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Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- State whether cropland is controlled, managed, sourced, or represented by more than one of these relationships.
- State the cultivated-area boundary and geographic coverage used for the denominator.
- Report results separately for the at-least-10% and more-than-20% natural-vegetation thresholds.
- Describe the method used to determine natural-vegetation area within each square kilometre of cultivated area.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted specification does not define the reporting period.
- The extracted specification does not prescribe how controlled, managed and sourced cropland should be consolidated or disaggregated.
- The source specifies threshold-based shares and should not be represented as a single undifferentiated vegetation percentage.
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.