Sustainability Metrics in US Agriculture

Metrics are quickly developing into a leading governance mechanism for sustainable agriculture in the United States. Funded by the USDA NIFA program, our team from Sam Houston State University, University of Vermont, and The Pennsylvania State University wanted to find out what metric governance means for power relations in the industry, farmer livelihoods, and sustainability.

Publications

2022 Hoffelmeyer, M., Conner, D., Strube, J., Hatanaka, M., Konefal, J., & Glenna, L. (2022). Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice.
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Early View, 1-9.

2022 Hatanaka, M, Konefal, J., Strube, J., Glenna, L., Conner, D., Data-Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture. Rural Sociology 87(1): 206-230

2022 Konefal, J., Hatanaka, M., Strube, J., Glenna, L., and Conner, D., Sustainability assemblages: From Metrics Development
to Metrics Adoption in United States Agriculture. Journal of Rural Studies (92):502-509

2021 Strube, J., Glenna, L., Hatanaka, M., Konefal, J., & Conner, D., How Data-Driven, Privately Ordered Sustainability Governance Shapes US Food Supply Chains: The Case of Field to Market. Journal of Rural Studies 86: 684-693