Project goals: 

Development of indicators for socioeconomic parameters on farms, operationalization and data collection design: Fundamental aspects such as farm budget and income use are affected, as are quality of life on the farm, workload, and resource allocation. Farm succession, gender, and diversity are important keywords in this context. Possibilities for defining revenue- and sufficiency-oriented farms.

Discussion of variants and methods for data collection and analysis to enable the mapping of specific agricultural problem areas: farm management with regard to workload, resilience, and personal resource management (time!). Collection of practically relevant parameters (compliance). Definition and mapping of diversification opportunities, management of the downstream value chain, managing societal demands using NetFoodProduction as an example, and perception of and dealing with environmental impacts in general.

Presentation of options for mapping upstream and downstream socioeconomic impacts, as well as their handling and significance in the value chain: approaches to integrating off-farm impacts into LCI (life cycle inventories); importance of S-LCA and aggregation of workload from databases; perception and interpretation of upstream impacts at the farm level; interaction of the education and consulting landscape, training content for farm planning; interaction of working groups (especially management); marketing, analysis of the perspectives of downstream actors on farm management; representation of concerns regarding education, family, and women in interest groups.

Preparation with regard to integration into the FarmLife operational management tool for data collection, evaluation and interpretation, and corresponding further development of the instruments: Identifying the potential for further development of the tool; operationalizing a survey, test survey; user-friendliness of data entry and evaluation, presentation of parameters and indicators.