Pesticide use volume and concentration by pesticide and toxicity level
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports pesticide use volume and concentration, disaggregated by individual pesticide and assigned toxicity level.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- kg; kg/m³ — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period covered by the organization’s disclosure
- Aggregation
- Report values separately for each individual pesticide and assigned toxicity level; no cross-pesticide aggregation is specified.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Ecosystem condition
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Pesticides used by the reporting organization within the reported food and agriculture activities.
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. 78, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A5.4
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. 78, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- kg; kg/m³ — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period covered by the organization’s disclosure
Unit meaning: Values use kg; kg/m³ under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Pesticide
- Toxicity level
- Pesticide volume (kg)
- Pesticide concentration (kg/m³)
Published dimensions
- Individual pesticide
- Assigned pesticide toxicity level
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. The source specifies two independently reportable quantitative fields—volume and concentration—with required pesticide and toxicity-level disaggregation. Retaining these as a structured metric family preserves the distinct units and avoids unsupported conversion or aggregation. No shortlisted existing metric has the same pesticide-use population, fields, toxicity dimensions or units.
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. 78, Additional sector metrics table; State of nature: Ecosystem condition
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Pesticide use volume and concentration by pesticide and toxicity level”.
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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).
- Disclose the individual pesticide to which each reported value relates.
- Disclose the toxicity level assigned to each pesticide and the classification basis used.
- Report both pesticide volume and pesticide concentration, retaining their distinct units.
- Describe the organizational or activity boundary for pesticide use included in the disclosure.
Record-specific limitations
- Higher reported volume or concentration is described as indicating greater hazard, but the metric does not itself quantify environmental exposure, ecological damage or realized toxicity.
- The source evidence does not provide a toxicity-classification method or threshold within the extracted metric description; the assigned toxicity level should therefore be disclosed with its classification basis.
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.