Land-use intensity
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Sector-appropriate output, such as agricultural yield or liquid production, per unit of land area used.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- tonnes or litres of output per km² — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- reporting period
- Aggregation
- ratio of reported output to the corresponding land area used, retained separately by output type and business activity
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Land use
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
land area used to produce the reported output within the stated reporting 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 Disclosurer004
TNFD LEAP approach
- 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 158, metric row 4
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD Recommendations
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Page 90, Table 8, A1.0
- Adopting Disclosure47c55239d9c2b860f924
TNFD Recommendations
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 90, Table 8, A1.0
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- tonnes or litres of output per km² — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use tonnes or litres of output per km² under the disclosed TNFD Recommendations method, period, location and reporting boundary.
Table fields and units
- reporting period
- business activity
- output type
- output amount
- output unit
- land area
- land-area unit
- land-use intensity
- geography or priority location
- value-chain boundary
- direct or proxy method
- method note
Published dimensions
- business activity
- output type
- output unit: tonnes or litres
- land-use area
- geography or priority location
- direct operations, upstream value chain, or downstream value chain where applicable
- reporting period
- direct or proxy method
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Intensity
Formula
LUI = O / AApply the source-defined TNFD Recommendations method only within the disclosed location, ecosystem and value-chain boundary. TNFD Annex 2 Table 8 metric A1.0 specifies a standalone output-per-area intensity with units of tonnes or litres of output per km². It is distinct from total land-use and land-use-change metrics because it measures production intensity rather than area or conversion.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
LUI | Land-use intensity | Amount of output produced per unit of land area used. | tonnes or litres of output per km² |
O | Output | Reported sector-appropriate output, such as agricultural yield or liquid production. | tonnes or litres |
A | Land area used | Land area associated with producing the reported output. | 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 90, Table 8, A1.0
Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Land-use intensity”.
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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.
- Define the output measured and state whether it is reported in tonnes or litres.
- Describe the land-area basis and how land area is associated with the reported output.
- State the business activity, geographic boundary, and value-chain boundary covered.
- State the reporting-period alignment of output and land area.
- Disclose whether land area or output is measured directly or estimated using a proxy method.
Record-specific limitations
- Output measured in tonnes and output measured in litres are not additive and must be reported separately.
- Intensity values are only comparable where output definition, land-area basis, activity, geography, and method are compatible.
- The source gives sector-dependent examples of output; it does not establish one universal output denominator across sectors.
- Locations with materially different natural characteristics should not be aggregated without retaining location-level context.
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.