We measure the footprint of farms, packing houses and processing plants at the level of detail that buyers and reduction targets now require: every lot with its polygon, its soil, its land use history and its field operations. So the number in the report holds up hectare by hectare.
GHG Protocol LSRS
SBTi FLAG
IPCC 2019
ISO 14067
ISO 14064-1
ISO 14046
SASB
Lemon orchards in Tucumán. In the platform, each of these lots is a polygon with its own soil and history.
Territory
Every farm, mapped lot by lot
A farm doesn't go in as a pin on a map. It is drawn or imported from Google Earth or a GIS (KMZ, KML or GeoJSON), and each lot becomes a polygon with its area, its crop and its planting year.
Each polygon is overlaid with 250 m digital soil maps and daily weather series. So the footprint doesn't rely on a national average: it uses the soil and climate of the lot.
Soil per lot
pH, soil organic carbon 0–30 cm, organic matter, texture, cation exchange capacity, available water and WRB class. Laboratory analyses replace the map for that lot.
Area-weighted
Farm values are the hectare-weighted mean of its lots; soil classes take the dominant class by area.
Climate and IPCC zone
The farm's own rainfall and temperature set its IPCC climate zone, which changes the N₂O and leaching factors.
Ecoregion
Each farm is placed in its ecoregion, the reference for native vegetation carbon stocks.
El Cadillal farm · 6 lots · 148.2 haSoil organic carbon 0–30 cm
Lot 4 · Lemon · planted 2009
ha
31.4 ha
COS
62 t C/ha
pH
6.4
USDA
Silt loam
WRB
Phaeozem
0120 t C/ha
Digital soil map, 250 m
Land use change
Twenty years of history for every polygon
Land use change is often the largest emission source of an agricultural product, and the one buyers ask about most. So it isn't declared from memory: it is checked against satellite imagery.
For each lot we analyse the yearly vegetation index series and tree cover loss since 2001. If there was a conversion, the system proposes the year and the previous use. If there wasn't, it records that as evidence, which is exactly what an auditor asks for.
The standard's window
The previous 20 years for annual crops and cycles up to 20 years; the cycle length for orchards and forestry, as the Land Sector and Removals Standard requires.
Plantation age
Where there is no record, the satellite series estimates the planting year of each lot.
Evidence on file
The decision and the series behind it stay in the inventory. The report shows where every declaration came from.
Biodiversity
Proximity of each farm to protected areas, Ramsar sites and key biodiversity areas.
Lot 4 · yearly vegetation indexVegetation index (NDVI)
✓No conversion detectedNo tree cover loss in 2001–2025
Soil emissions
The nitrogen cycle, calculated lot by lot
On a farm, most field emissions don't come out of an exhaust pipe: they come out of the soil. Every kilo of nitrogen that goes in with a fertiliser, a manure or a crop residue travels this cycle, and part of it returns to the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a gas 273 times more potent than CO₂. We calculate it with the IPCC 2019 equations, using each lot's soil, climate and irrigation.
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Nitrogen input
Transformation in the soil
Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
Volatilised ammonia
Leached nitrate
CO₂
Direct N₂OIPCC 2019 · Eq. 11.1 · EF1
Released by nitrification and denitrification of the applied nitrogen. The factor depends on the fertiliser type and on whether the lot's climate zone is wet or dry.
Indirect N₂OEq. 11.2 and 11.3 · EF4 and EF5
Volatilised ammonia is redeposited and emits elsewhere; leached nitrate reaches groundwater and rivers. Leaching is estimated from each farm's soil, rainfall and irrigation.
CO₂ from urea and limeEq. 11.12 and 11.13
Urea and UAN release their carbon when they hydrolyse, and lime and dolomite when they dissolve. They are calculated separately from N₂O.
Beyond the soil: fuel per field operation, irrigation energy, fertilisers and crop protection per commercial product, residue burning, livestock, and at the packing house and plant, electricity, refrigerants, packaging and effluents.
Result
What a product footprint looks like
The report breaks the footprint down by stage and source, and keeps apart what the standard says to keep apart: land use change emissions, removals and land occupation are never mixed with the rest.
And the water footprint, in the same inventory
With the same lots we calculate the green, blue and grey water footprint under ISO 14046: crop evapotranspiration with the FAO-56 method, irrigation per lot and source, and the water risk of each farm's basin.
We compare your targets with those of companies in your sector and region that have entered the Science Based Targets process: how many have a validated target, what reduction they commit to, and by when.
It helps set a target the market will read as serious before you submit it, and tells you what your customers will ask when they compare suppliers.
How do your targets compare with your sector in the region?
Illustrative values. Universe: sector companies that entered the SBTi process.
Frequently asked questions
No. For each lot we use 250 m digital soil maps. If you have laboratory analyses, they are loaded lot by lot and replace the map for that lot.
We analyse each polygon with satellite vegetation index and tree cover loss series since 2001. If there is no event in the assessment window, that is recorded as evidence in the inventory, with the series behind it.
Yes, if it is in one of the SBTi designated sectors, such as agricultural production or food processing, or if its land emissions reach 20% of the total across the three scopes. Below that threshold it is recommended but optional.
From 2027, land emissions are reported in four subcategories, removals are reported separately and not netted, and occupied hectares must be disclosed for scope 1 and 3. The platform already calculates all of this from your lot data.
Yes. For agricultural products and processed foods companies, the same inventory feeds the indicators of the sector's SASB standards (FB-AG and FB-PF), starting with scope 1 emissions.
Yes. Product footprints follow ISO 14067 and the report documents the origin of every data point, the land use history of each lot and the satellite evidence, which is what buyers and certifiers usually ask for.
Want to see your farm in the platform?
Bring your lot polygons and in the demo we'll show you the soil, the satellite history and a first footprint.
