The method described in this stand contains 25 indicators of economic, environmental and social performance. It has been applied to 27 certified food value chains – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) and organic products – and their 27 conventional reference products and the associated dataset, including raw data, calculating sheets and indicator values, is freely downloadable and reusable. The indicators are estimated at different levels of the value chain: farm level, processing level and retail level. The database also contains the raw data based on which the indicators are estimated and its source, and the completed spreadsheet calculators for the following indicators: carbon footprint and food miles. The associated documentation describes the common method and indicators used to assess the sustainability performance of the twenty-seven certified products and their conventional counterparts. It contains a list of the twenty-four indicators used to assess sustainability in food and agri-food value chains. This list was drawn up on the basis of a literature review and the FAO’s Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA) indicators (FAO, 2013). The documentation presents the assumptions and choices, the process of data collection and the indicator estimation methods designed to assess the three sustainability dimensions within a reasonable time constraint, i.e. three person-months for each food quality scheme and its non-certified reference product. Several prioritizations were set regarding data collection (indicator, variable, value chain level) together with a level of representativeness specific to each variable and product type (country and sector). The documentation also summarizes how relatively common variables (e.g., number of animals per hectare, …) collected for each case study are combined into indicators (e.g., carbon footprint). We encourage all people using this method to send us their results in order to enrich the associated freely available dataset.

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