This dashboard visualises trends in key environmental indicators for agriculture, highlighting state of progress on environmental performance. While agricultural production has grown in most OECD countries, challenges remain in many regions to reduce emissions and preserve biodiversity. The dashboard covers 44 locations, including OECD member and non-member countries, and the EU.
Measuring the Environmental Performance of Agriculture
As sustainability gains prominence in agriculture, the OECD agri-environmental indicators offer a robust tool to benchmark environmental performance and guide policy action.
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Country insights on agri-environmental indicators
Agricultural characteristics
The agriculture characteristics section presents a short summary of the agricultural context, focusing on agricultural land and cropland as well as livestock and irrigated area indicators.
Land use, production and input use
The agricultural land use change section focuses on total agricultural land, cropland, and pasture. The production and input use panel shows trends of agricultural production and input use indicators. Production is measured using the agricultural production index of the FAO. Inputs are expressed on a per-hectare basis to control for the quantity of agricultural land.
Nutrient balances
The nutrient section shows long-term trends in nitrogen and phosphorus balances and efficiency of use; nutrient balance indicators can act as a signal for the potential environmental impact of agriculture on air, soil and water.
Nitrogen balance and use efficiency
Phosphorus balance and use efficiency
Greenhouse gas emissions
Agricultural activities contribute to global warming by emitting methane and nitrous oxide, two powerful greenhouse gases, and, to a smaller extent, carbon dioxide.
Ammonia emissions
Agricultural ammonia emissions are associated with two major types of environmental problems: acidification of soil and water, and eutrophication of water bodies. These impacts contribute to air pollution, biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystem functions.
Farmland biodiversity
The farmland bird index is an indicator used by some countries to inform about farmland biodiversity. It tracks populations of bird species dependent on agricultural land. A decline signals biodiversity loss, while increases or stability suggest population growth or no overall change.