Appraisal of soil health, agroecology, and agri-food system frameworks: a coherent architecture for program design, implementation, and evaluation.

The dataset is for a compartive review of soil health, agro-ecology and agri-food systems frameworks. Indicators were compiled based on three key agroecology related frameworks: the agroecology principles and elements, and the tool for agroecology performance evaluation, and the characterization of agroecology transformation (CAET) procedure. Additional indicators were drawn from agroecology principles of co-creation of knowledge, human and social values, diversity, animal health and on soil health. To validate and refine the initial list, a snowball exercise was employed, engaging six researchers with expertise in agronomy, agroecology, economics and sociology. The research team independently reviewed the proposed indicators, assessed their relevance within the identified frameworks, and suggested additional indicators where necessary. The r package ‘pdf tools’ was used to extract the indicators, grouped by the 13 agro-ecology principles that include soil health and checked for context in which it is used using an extract of terms within proximity of the indicator, an extended sentence.