Proportion of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from regions with high or extremely high baseline water scarcity
Unit : Percentage (%)
Indicator : Resource consumption
Metric Type : Pressure
Frameworks alignment notes
Target example
[Company name] will reduce the proportion of [agricultural products/animal feed] sourced from regions with high or extremely high baseline water scarcity by [target percentage]% by [target year], compared to a [baseline year] baseline.
Target Source: WBCSD target template
Sector
Value chain stage
Metric assessment
Relevance: High
Feasibility: Low
Additional Metric Notes
Rationale: This metric can be used to assess water stress risk across a company's sourcing portfolio. Contextualizing water use or consumption data with information on water stress is important to focus reductions on areas of greatest need. Key resources: SBTN-Freshwater; WBCSD Regen-ag Metrics - Water chapter; WRI Aqueduct Landscape deep dives: Mekong Delta, VA - rice (+ aquaculture rotation) - Key indicator for this biome which has med-high water stress Key resources: IRRI - 1M5R: https://ghgmitigation.irri.org/mitigation-technologies/1-must-do-5-reductions; Sustainable Rice Platform: https://sustainablerice.org/; Sidama, ETH - coffee - Key indicator for this biome which has med-high water stress