Food security

Total and gender-differentiated available food in the household
Seasonal available food in the household

Income

Farm income (U.S.$/ha)
Household income (U.S.$/household, U.S.$/capita)
Household income stability (standard deviation)
Income sources (on/off farm, agricultural/nonagricultural)
New products or processes introduced in the agricultural sector
Participation on final consumer price (community gate price/final consumer price of most important selected commodities)
Value added to primary production (selling price/primary product farm-gate price)
Distribution of income sources

Equity

Farm and household income comparisons by well-being group and by gender
Distribution of economic surplus or value added
Land tenure situation (percentage of farmers who own land, mean farm size)

Employment generation

Number of jobs (total, gender-differentiated, and seasonal)
Percentage of active population employed (total, employees, self-employment, and gender-differentiated)

Production system

Land use intensification

Number of cropping cycles per year
Fallow area as percentage of total area
Fallow time as percentage of cropping cycle
Fallow species diversity (native and enriched with introduced species)
Legume diversity
Land with improved pasture

Land use diversification

Number of species/crops per farm and per landscape
Number/type of cropping systems within the farm
Number of weeks per year that the soil is exposed to erosive effects (wind and water)
Number of perennial crops in the cropping systems
Spatial distribution of crops
Temporal distribution of crops
New resource management practices introduced in the agricultural sector

Land productivity

Kilograms per hectare per year for selected crops, livestock, and forest products
Total factor productivity
Product/energy ratio (biophysical measure)

Forest

Area of forest cover (ha/farm, ha/community, ha/municipality)
Map of forest cover (spatial and temporal distribution)
Secondary forest regeneration
Species diversity in secondary forest (native successions and enrichment with introduced species)

Soils

Land productivity

Kilograms per hectare per year for selected crops (already an indicator of production systems)

Water balance

Area and spatial and temporal distribution of degraded land and pasture

Water

Water pollution

Contamination points

Water quality

Sedimentation
Turbidity
Levels of nitrates and phosphates
Conductivity

Water availability

Volume of water by season
Volume of water by levels of rain

Other indicators

Agro-chemical use (kg/farm, number of applications)
Burning of agricultural residues (Yes/No)
Air pollution (Yes/No, CO, CO₂)

Community empowerment and equity in decision making

Projects designed and mobilized by the community and/or local and/or external organizations (number and description)

Participation in local policy decision making

Existing channels and mechanism for participation in democratic governance
Community access to political decision making
Community capacity to influence political decisions that affect the community

Human capital

Education and experience

Individual capacity (number of years formal/nonformal education, number of years experience)

Individual capacities

Capacity to participate in key decisions that affect NRM and primary production and agro-enterprises
Capacity to innovate in agriculture, agro-enterprises, and NRM
Knowledge of key causes and effects of NRM problems
Knowledge of key causes and effects of agricultural production, processing, and marketing relationships
Capacity to manage agro-enterprises, local agricultural research committees, community organizations, consortia, and farms

Access to opportunities

Percentage of children with access to primary education
Percentage of youths with access to secondary, technical, and university education
Technology
Market
Infrastructure
Health
Information

Social capital

Structural social capital

Organizational density
Networks
Support organizations
Procedures and norms
Precedents

Cognitive social capital

Conflict resolution
Collective action
Solidarity
Trust
Reciprocity
Cooperation