Part of our ambition with SAM is to develop an interactive dashboard environment that allows us to disseminate SAM results to a wider audience. Enabling users to engage with the data and explore potential opportunities and challenges in agricultural sustainability can help facilitate action. Below are some applications in development that we intend to integrate into a holistic interactive dashboard.
Looking at the Data: How sustainable is my country’s agricultural system?
SAM 1st Ed. Products
To familiarize yourself with individual country performances and associated products of SAM’s first edition results, use the following R Shiny application. You have the ability to search results for individual countries and download score reports, historical patch plots, and correlation matrices.
Engage with the embedded application below, or visit the application directly here.
Comparing Sustainability Performances
While the SAM products cross-compare indicators by standardizing data on 0-100 scale, with larger values corresponding to better sustainability performance, you can still view the raw data based on the original units of each indicator. Furthermore, the application below compares countries with the poorest sustainability performances based on your user-selected time period, indicator, and country of interest.
Engage with the embedded application below, or visit the application directly here.
Challenges and Opportunities: SAM & the SDGs
Synergies and tradeoffs between SAM and the broader SDGs.
Achieving agricultural sustainability is a component of the broader Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2; Target 2.4). This requires that we consider the potential opportunities and challenges that exist when implementing policies to address this sustainability aim. These challenges and opportunities can both be expressed as tradeoffs (i.e., inversely related indicators) and synergies (i.e., indicators that improve or worsen in unison). As such, we developed the following app to look at the correlations that exist from SAM and SDG data.
Engage with the embedded application below, or visit the application directly here.
Are conditions improving? Further classifying tradeoffs and synergies based on worsening and improving conditions.
The previous Application enables an initial glance at the synergies and tradeoffs shared between SAM and SDG indicators. Delving further into this analysis we can, not only test for monotonicity (e.g., tradeoffs & synergies), but also classify relationships based on whether we see historically worsening and/or improving trends amongst the data.
Engage with the embedded application below, or visit the application directly here. And for more information on this particular analysis, read Kevin’s blog post on the analysis here.