The Methodology for the 2026 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
This methodology lays out the metrics that the World Benchmarking Alliance will use to assess and rank the performance of 350 of the most influential food and agriculture companies on key issues underpinning the food systems transformation.
The WBA Food and Agriculture Benchmark methodology serves as a roadmap towards healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems based on societal expectations and the latest scientific research. WBA methodologies are continuously updated to ensure relevance and increase coherence and complementarity with other benchmarks and reporting frameworks – within WBA and beyond. This 2024 revision of the Food and Agriculture Benchmark methodology ensures alignment not only with WBA’s overall methodology review principles, but also with the proposed targets of the Corporate Accountability Framework coordinated by the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub. We aim for this review and our benchmark to provide further data and insights as input to the UNFSS stocktaking process.