Program areas at Field to Market
Stakeholder convening - diverse stakeholders are convened together To facilitate multistakeholder collaborations, advance shared learning, and drive collective action To advance Field To Market's mission and goals. This program area enables Field To Market To bring together diverse perspectives To co-create strategies To address key opportunities and barriers in scaling sustainable agriculture, including cross-sector dialogues, the sustainable agriculture summit biannual plenaries, working groups, and other non governance related convenings.
Metrics - identifies and develops metrics for reporting on, and updating as necessary, key environmental, economic, and social indicators of agricultural sustainability. This program also makes recommendations To the board of directors on revisions To existing metrics as new scientific information becomes available and To the general assembly on inclusion of new indicators in the Field To Market program. Metrics also acts as the official review committee for metrics that are developed externally with the goal of being used by Field To Market
Technology - makes recommendations on Field To Market's current and future technology needs, as well as updates To the fieldprint calculator algorithms. Oversees maintenance of the fieldprint platform, including improved functionality, interoperability with usda models, and inclusion of new crops. This program also establishes best practices for integration with other tools and software, including recommendations on licensing of the algorithms through an application programming interface. It manages policies and protocols related To incoming grower data that includes standards for data storage, sharing, aggregation, and privacy policies.
Accelerator projects
Awards and recognition
Education and outreach
Harmonization
Verification