SFFS Indicators

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• SFFS Indicators
• Framework of the SFFS
• Modular and hierarchical links to other
  strategies and PSA targets
• Some strategies are a subset, e.g. Food Industry
  Sustainability Strategy
• Others sit alongside e.g. England Biodiversity
  Strategy
• Delivered through a number of workstreams
• Complex relationship between workstreams and
  outcomes

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• SFFS Indicators
• Role of SFFS indicators
• Measure state and trend
• Measure change and progress towards the outcomes.
• Important role in communicating this to
  stakeholders
• Indicators must be relevant, easy to understand,
  transparent
• Choice should not be data driven, but do need to
  take into account cost-effectiveness
• Important to work with data owners and experts
  (science, economics, statistics and policy)
• On their own, indicators tell us little about
  cause and effect relationships (e.g. human body
  temperature)
• To carry out more in depth policy appraisal and
  evaluation requires further analysis and
  interpretation

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• SFFS Indicators
• Headline indicators
• Nine high level strategic outcomes, 3 for each
  pillar of sustainability
• Progress towards these outcomes measured by set
  of 11 headline indicators
• Broad, high level measures. Often slow moving
  super tanker type measures
• Have targets and trajectories set, generally for
  the year 2010
• Results will be used in making an overall
  assessment of the success of the SFFS
• Important that policies focus on outcomes
  themselves and not the indicators

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• SFFS and Indicators
• Core indicators
• Set of approximately 50 indicators
• Complement the headline indicators
• Provide breadth fill any gaps in coverage
• Provide depth add more detail or provide
  sharper focus
• Provide timeliness give an earlier indication
  of progress
• Include measures of both outcomes and outputs
  (process)
• Balanced set to provide the same level of
  measurement across all the outcomes. In practice
  this results in more indicators for some areas
  than others.
• No targets or trajectories

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• SFFS Indicators
• Workstream level indicators
• Different role to the programme level less of a
  role in communicating to stakeholders
• Should be driven by the outcomes and relevant to
  policy levers and the underlying issues
• More focus on the outputs and measuring the
  process by which the outcomes are delivered
• May focus on shorter timescales and include
  interim milestones
• Targets and trajectories may be appropriate
• Not driven by or necessarily the same as the SFFS
  indicators, for example, may be more specific
  subsets
• Indicators should cover all the key issues but
  still be kept to a manageable number

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Environmental Sustainability
Economic Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Greater competitiveness of the total food Chain
Farming sector focussed on the market
Better use of natural resources
Reduced environmental cost of the food chain
Improved landscape and biodiversity
Better Public Health and Workplace HS
Higher Animal Welfare
More cohesive and productive rural communities
Reduced burden on the taxpayer and economy
Strategic Outcomes
Gross Value Added per person
Productivity compared to rest of economy
Cost of production linked support
River Water Quality
Organic Matter in Soil
Farmland Birds
Fruit Veg Consumption
Animal Welfare Index
Gap in rural productivity
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Condition of SSSIs
Headline Indicators
5.01 Soil Strategy 5.02 Use of water for
irrigation
3.01 Costs and cost-sharing of animal
disease 3.02 Subsidies
7.01 Obesity 7.02 Dietary health 7.03
Food-borne illness 7.04 Farmer suicide
rates 7.05 Workplace safety
9.01 Rural economy 9.03 Rural business
1.01 Farm incomes 1.02 Value added
activities 1.03 Collaboration 1.04 Commodity
yields 1.07 Farm assurance schemes 1.08
Organic farming 1.09 Skills and training 1.10
Financial risks 1.11 Adaptation to climate
change 1.12 Cost of regulation
4.01 Fertiliser use 4.02 Air quality 4.03
Pesticide use 4.04 River water quality 4.05
Waste 4.06 Good Ag. Env Condition 4.07
Energy use 4.10 Food transportation
8.01 Farm heatlh plans 8.02 Skills training
on AHW
6.01 Species biodiversity 6.02
Habitats 6.03 Landscape value 6.04 Access to
countryside 6.06 Genetic diversity 6.07
Invasive species
Outcome measures
2.01 Capital investment 2.02 Investment in
RD 2.04 Skills training
2.03 Food Chain Centre website
6.05 HLS scheme
1.05 Demonstration farms 1.06 Benchmarking
9.02 Access to services
4.09 ELS scheme
4.08 Whole Farm Appraisal
5.03 Energy crops
Process measures