Brian Ssebunya

Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau | FiBL · Socio-economics

Many farm sustainability assessments use multi-criteria methods for aggregating indicators based on performance scores and importance weights. One of these is the SMART-Farm Tool, which measures the degree of goal achievement of farms across 327 indicators nested within 4 sustainability dimensions, 21 themes and 58 sub-themes of the FAO-SAFA Guidel...

The transition toward sustainable agricultural production can be supported with improved insight into the performance of existing farming systems. The Sustainability Assessments of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA) framework published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provides a comprehensive and harmonized framework to assess and co...

Discrepancies in certification effects on smallholder incomes have been found in scientific literature. Unobserved farmer-group heterogeneity is a likely reason. For the long-standing Robusta coffee farmer-groups in Uganda, we find no significant effect of certification on net-farm income. But, we find 20 percentage point differences in net-farm income b...

How can indicator weights for multi-criteria sustainability assessments be determined based on experts’ opinions? How do different opinions affect the results of sustainability assessments?

Many sustainability assessment frameworks have been developed in recent years, but translating them into practical tools to guide decision making remains challenging. By engaging coffee stakeholders in Uganda, we demonstrate a process of translating the widely-accepted framework for Sustainability Assessments of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA),...

When trying to optimize the sustainability performance of farms and farming systems, a consideration of trade-offs and synergies between different themes and dimensions is required. The aim of this paper is to perform a systematic analysis of trade-offs and synergies across all dimensions and themes. To achieve this aim we used the Sustainability M...

Globally, organic agriculture offers the promise of a future in which food and other farm products are produced and distributed in a healthy, ecologically sound, truly sustainable and fair way. The full and multiple benefits of organic agriculture are just now being realized— from ecosystem services to the provision of healthier food. Yet, to reach...

Globally, organic agriculture offers the promise of a future in which food and other farm products are produced and distributed in a healthy, ecologically sound, truly sustainable and fair way. The full and multiple benefits of organic agriculture are just now being realized— from ecosystem services to the provision of healthier food. Yet, to reach...