Amount of land used per unit of production (land use efficiency)

Type

Impact driver

Related framework / metric

TNFD: A1.0, FA.A4.1, FA.3.0

Units

Area, e.g. hectares (ha) per unit mass of product output, e.g. tonnes (t)

Example target

Benchmark against best practice

Example methods / guidance / references

What are tiers?

Tier 1

Estimate using own judgement and observations

Tier 2

Estimate using third-party professional estimates or public data

Tier 3

Model or measure based on site-specific surveys/sampling, remote or in-field sensing, laboratory analysis, etc.

Example data sources

Internal records

Third-party data sources

Site-specific measurements or model outputs

Notes

Note that this metric is the inverse of what is commonly termed ‘yield’ (mass of product output per unit area of land).
Variants of this metric include:

TNFD additional disclosure metric A1.0: “Land-use intensity (tonnes or litres of output/km2). This will vary by sector context; for example, crop yield (tonnes/km2) for the agriculture sector.”

TNFD Food and agriculture additional disclosure metric FA.A4.1: “Land use efficiency (ha land/kg of product).”

TNFD FA.A3.0: “Actual and potential yield (kg/km2), and yield gap, by type of crop.”

Last updated: 21st May 2025