Comments on: Towards a Sustainability Indicators document

By: Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck — Fri, 15 May 2015 06:04:33 +0000

In reply to Jane Poole. thanks- on the gender, did you use the Gender and livelihoods indicator document?

By: Jane Poole

Jane Poole — Fri, 15 May 2015 05:56:26 +0000

In reply to Mark van Wijk. P.S. Hope the USAID hunger index is the one called FANTA ;-)

By: Jane Poole

Jane Poole — Fri, 15 May 2015 05:54:35 +0000

In reply to Mark van Wijk. Thanks Mark - please do!

By: Mark van Wijk

Mark van Wijk — Thu, 14 May 2015 22:27:40 +0000

In reply to Jane Poole.

Ah indeed missed this one up to now. Yep, can send out info next week. Next week in guatamala we’ll test the ODK version of modular survey with now a series of indicators, not just the rapid food security indicator we discussed in Nbo. We combine now a series of ‘standard’ and documented approaches to quantify overall farm performance from different perspectives (so food availability, gender control on benefits, a hunger index developed by usaid, the progress out of poverty index, and a simplistic tier 1 emission estimate). Just need to clean it a bit still but we are now down to the details (need to remove the question ‘how much wool do you eat?’…). So indeed want to share this asap with you and Carlos, and everyone else interested!

By: Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:25:00 +0000

In reply to J. Heinke. exactly... and we used to say the same for gender! we need to have a go and start!

By: Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:24:13 +0000

In reply to Barry Shapiro. Hmm, why so Barry? the idea is to look at the various dimensions of sustainability (not only climate related) and other actors

By: Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:23:07 +0000

dear all— I see this as the first step before Peter (great) idea. The doc he sent me is a very good starting point as most of the farm level indicators are already there (many thanks!). The idea would be to make it into a ‘easy to use’ manual,and adding indicators at other level, in particular other nodes of the systems or value chain.
This is a low hanging, but not rotten, fruit!

By: Barry Shapiro

Barry Shapiro — Thu, 14 May 2015 10:11:44 +0000

This good idea should be merged with “Climate smart livestock systems”

By: J. Heinke

J. Heinke — Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:43 +0000

I do support this idea! But it is a challenge to break down a complex concept such as sustainability into a number of indicators. There will be trade-offs between comprehensiveness and utility/simplicity.

By: Shirley Tarawali

Shirley Tarawali — Thu, 14 May 2015 09:47:41 +0000

YEs, this needs to combine with the other idea on sustainability indicators!!