SISC Metrics

Metrics

Through multi-stakeholder collaboration, SISC has developed, refined and adopted eight Version 1.0 Working Metrics:

Applied Water Use Efficiency
Habitat and Biodiversity
Energy Use with GHG Translator
Nitrogen Use
Phosphorus Use
Soil Health: Organic Carbon Concentration and Aggregate Stability
Simple Irrigation Efficiency
Food Loss

Read about the full suite of Version 1.0 Working Metrics here.

For an introduction to SISC metrics, listen to a Webinar Overview of SISC Metrics: A Dialogue with Potato Growers (scroll down to learn more or select an excerpt).

About the Webinars

"Overview of SISC Metrics" features a dialogue among SISC leadership and the Potato Sustainability Team, a group of potato processors and growers from the United States and Canada who are working to create a common platform for measuring stewardship across the potato supply. The Webinar is available in its entirety and in shorter excerpts:

Overview of SISC Metrics: A Dialogue with Potato Growers (53:42)

Introduction to Overview of SISC Metrics (06:50)

SISC Metrics: Applied Water Use Efficiency (05:27)

SISC Metrics: Energy Use (14:39)

SISC Metrics: Nitrogen Use (15:12)

SISC Metrics: Phosphorous Use (08:21)

SISC Metrics: Soil Organic Matter (01:56)

Conclusion to Overview of SISC Metrics (06:40)

Host: John Keeling, Executive VP and CEO, National Potato Council; SISC Steering Committee Member

Presenter: Dana Gunders, Staff Scientist, NRDC; SISC Steering Committee Member

Thanks to John Keeling for sharing this discussion.