International land performance framework
Published November 2025
Effective from 1 November 2025
This document covers an International Land Performance Framework (ILPF) that has been developed to assist with performance measurement for rural land by outlining a process to design relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for that land. KPIs are quantifiable measurements that provide a baseline for performance and monitor how that performance changes over time.
The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind when utilising ILPF, and when considering the choice and design of relevant KPIs. The SDGs can help to ensure an essential connection between what the rural land asset is delivering and its connection to the needs of society.
ILPF has been designed to be flexible and straightforward to use. It should benefit all decision makers who own, manage or have an interest in rural land, in both the public and private sectors, and all key stakeholders who are impacted by the use to which land is put.
ILPF supports organisations who wish to measure the strategic and operational performance of their rural land by helping them to design KPIs for that purpose. Understanding performance allows identification of opportunities to improve and, just as importantly, risks to mitigate.