Extraction yield
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports average extraction yield and the proportion of feedstock processed in facilities exceeding a disclosed baseline yield, with facility or regional, feedstock and technology-category breakdowns.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- yield intensity as applicable (for example, gallons/m³ of ethanol per bushel of maize/corn); % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report average extraction yield and the percentage of total feedstock processed in facilities exceeding the specified baseline yield; retain required disaggregations.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Agricultural feedstock processing efficiency and extraction yield
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Feedstock processed in the reporting organization's relevant processing facilities 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 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
- Page 119, Table 12, AF.A3.2
- Adopting DisclosureAF.A3.2
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2026
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 119, Table 12, AF.A3.2
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- yield intensity as applicable (for example, gallons/m³ of ethanol per bushel of maize/corn); % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use yield intensity as applicable (for example, gallons/m³ of ethanol per bushel of maize/corn); % under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- facility or region
- feedstock type
- technology category
- average extraction yield
- yield unit
- baseline yield
- percentage of total feedstock processed in facilities exceeding baseline yield
Published dimensions
- facility or region
- feedstock type
- technology category
- baseline-yield threshold
- yield measure
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. AF.A3.2 contains two linked but non-additive reportable outputs: an average yield and a feedstock-share percentage above a baseline. They are retained as one structured disclosure rather than flattened into an unspecified scalar. The shortlisted crop-area-and-yield metric has a crop-production area boundary and does not match this processing-facility construct.
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
- Page 119, Table 12, AF.A3.2
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Extraction yield”.
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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 extraction-yield measure and applicable unit for each feedstock or product.
- Disclose the defined baseline yield used to determine whether a facility exceeds the threshold.
- Disclose the basis for calculating the average extraction yield.
- Disclose facility or regional, feedstock-type and technology-category disaggregation, including relevant enzyme, fermentation-process or feedstock-genetics categories.
Record-specific limitations
- Extraction-yield units vary by feedstock and processed product and must not be converted or aggregated without a disclosed common basis.
- The percentage measure depends on the specified baseline yield; results are not comparable where baseline definitions differ.
- Reported performance is limited to feedstock processed in the defined facility boundary.
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.