Table 2.
List of the 43 indicators used to assess resilience at farm scale in the systematic review of the literature. Indicator occurrences are in brackets
| Farm dimensions | Indicator | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural productivity | Yield (21); Feed production (4); Dietary energy production (2); Annual net primary productivity (1) | Unit of production per unit of surface; Megajoule per farm per year |
| Animal production (11) | Unit of production per animal or per unit of surface | |
| Feed self-sufficiency (5); Dietary energy self-sufficiency (4) | Unit of production or unit of production per time unit or production/energy requirement ratio; Probability to reach self-sufficiency (e.g. number of self-sufficient years) | |
| Animal or crop mortality (4) | Number of years with mortality or mortality rate | |
| Land equivalent ratio (2) | Score | |
| Technical efficiency (2) | Score | |
| Labour productivity (1) | Unit of production per unit of time | |
| Economic profitability | Profit (41); Gross margin (11); Rate of return (9); Net present value (4); Benefit/Cost ratio (1) | Currency or currency per unit of production or per unit of time or per unit of surface |
| Production costs (7) | Currency per production or per unit of surface or per year | |
| Conditional value at risk (6); Certainty equivalent (5); Risk premium (2); Fair premium (1); Mean root square loss (1) | Currency or currency per unit of surface or per unit of time | |
| Water productivity (3) | Currency per hectare or currency per hectare per millimetre of water | |
| Poverty score (3) | Score | |
| Total factor productivity (2) | Score | |
| Volume of exportation (1) | Livestock unit per year | |
| Environmental performance | Greenhouse gases balance (10) | Unit of reactive per product weight or per surface |
| Water use (7); Water use efficiency (7) | Cubic meter or millimetre (per hectare); Kilogram of crop per hectare per millimetre | |
| Soil erosion (6) | Degree of ground cover or carbon erosion factor or ton of eroded soil per hectare | |
| Nitrogen footprint (4); Nitrogen use efficiency (3) | Unit of reactive per product weight or per surface (e.g. gram of nitrogen per kilogram of milk); Unit of production per unit of nitrogen per unit of surface | |
| Energy footprint (3); Energy productivity (1); Energy use efficiency (1) | Megajoule, kilowatt per hour or megajoule per kilogram of meat; Unit of production per megajoule; Ratio of energy output to the energy input | |
| Carbon sequestration (2) | Ton of carbon per hectare | |
| Ecosystem services (1) | Currency | |
| Pesticide use (1) | Pesticides load index | |
| Transpiration efficiency (1) | Transpiration ratio | |
| Social performance | Workload (4) | Unit of time or number of worker per unit of time or unit of time per surface (e.g. number of men per day, number of hours per hectare) |
| Sociocultural services (1) | Currency | |
| Number of jobs on farm (1) | Unit | |
| Combination of the four dimensions of performance | Social gross margin (1) | Currency |
| Net present value (1) | Currency | |
| Benefit/Cost ratio (1) | Currency |