Textile Exchange's Regenerative Ag Framework: Your Outcome Guide
TL;DR: Measure and report regenerative agriculture progress using a new framework that guides assessment, target-setting, and public reporting for various stakeholders.
- Framework helps companies and farms track regenerative agriculture progress.
- Guide outlines steps from context assessment to public reporting.
- Implement practices, measure outcomes like soil and biodiversity.
- Select indicators tailored for different farm sizes and contexts.
- Adapt management based on ongoing monitoring and data analysis.
Why it matters: This framework provides a common language and methodology for proving the impact of regenerative practices, helping to build trust and drive investment in sustainable agriculture.
Do this next: Review the framework to understand how its outcome indicators align with your existing farm or supply chain metrics.
Recommended for: Academics, large-scale farmers, and organizations dedicated to quantifying and improving regenerative agriculture practices.
Textile Exchange's Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework Guidebook supports companies and farms in measuring, targeting, and reporting progress. Preliminary steps: Assess context, interpret/prioritize outcomes, act on regenerative practices. Then baseline performance, set targets (e.g., SBTN Land/Freshwater, GHG Protocol), monitor trends, adapt management, report publicly sharing successes/challenges. Figure 1 outlines brand expectations; Figure 3 details three-step process: implement practices, measure outcome indicators, demonstrate system functioning. Offers indicator choices per outcome area, tailored for smallholders/resource-poor farmers, prioritizing flexibility. Users include brands, farms, project developers, extension agents. Farms understand social/economic context first. Ongoing monitoring via selected indicators, action plans. Practical for statements on alignment with standards/initiatives. Steps ensure baseline establishment, target-setting, public reporting for knowledge exchange. VF Corporation's process gifted for use. Concrete for practitioners: select indicators, develop plans, track performance in outcomes like soil, biodiversity. Enables data-driven adaptation and verification across scales.