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Model the scenario. Do not score the impact.

The Kokonut Impact Calculator helps farm founders, contributors, capital-governance participants, reviewers, and partners turn a farm idea into a structured planning scenario. It is designed to answer questions such as:
  • Which of Kokonut’s primary SDGs are relevant to this farm design?
  • Which activities are actually represented in the scenario?
  • Which evidence would be needed before stronger claims are made?
  • What gross-revenue assumption is the plan using?
  • If the farm proposes a public-goods allocation, what amount would that assumption imply?
  • Which parts of the scenario are still forecasts rather than actual records?
The calculator does not generate verified impact.
Its job is to organize assumptions and evidence gaps — not to turn planning inputs into scientific, financial, or social outcomes.

Use the calculator

Build a custom scenario or load the Adelphi reference assumptions.

Understand the SDG method

See how Kokonut separates SDG alignment, activity, measured outcome, and impact interpretation.

See Adelphi's SDG evidence

Compare a planning scenario with the evidence boundaries used for the live reference farm.

Plan the evidence

Turn scenario assumptions into source records, review states, publications, and appropriate interpretations.
Calculator outputs are planning artifacts. They are not audited SDG outcomes, certified carbon claims, investment returns, guaranteed yields, regulatory findings, employment verification, or proof that a farm created a public benefit.

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What changed in this version

The calculator previously generated several values from hidden heuristic formulas. This revision removes the outputs that looked more authoritative than the underlying evidence justified.
The redesign favors transparent assumptions over false precision. A calculator can help structure a hypothesis; it should not manufacture an outcome that belongs to field evidence.

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How the calculator fits into the Framework

The calculator intentionally stops before outcome verification. It can help prepare the farm plan and evidence requirements. The farm, MRV records, and later analysis determine what actually happened.

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Calculator

Use Load Adelphi reference to inspect the documented planning baseline, then change one assumption at a time. The Adelphi revenue figure and 10% public-goods share remain forecast/model assumptions rather than realized economic outcomes.

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Inputs are assumptions, not facts

The calculator separates farm-design assumptions from evidence planning.

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Scenario assumptions

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Evidence-readiness inputs

The calculator also asks whether the scenario has or plans records for:
  • land / site;
  • jobs and roles;
  • compensation / work quality;
  • harvest and distribution;
  • ownership / leadership;
  • ecological baseline;
  • public-goods transfers.
These checks affect evidence readiness, not the claimed magnitude of impact.

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What the calculator returns

The calculator does not rank farms or decide that one farm is “more impactful” than another.

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The SDG claim ladder

The revised calculator follows the same claim ladder as the Framework and Adelphi SDG pages.
A calculator should not jump from design inputs directly to impact.

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Primary SDGs in the calculator

The tool focuses on the same five primary SDGs used in the current Kokonut Framework.

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SDG 13 — Climate Action

SDG 13 remains a secondary climate co-benefit. The calculator can identify that climate-relevant practices are present. It does not calculate t CO₂e. A quantified climate claim requires an appropriate methodology, baseline, reporting period, measurements, uncertainty treatment, and review.

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Adelphi reference scenario

The calculator’s Adelphi button loads a reference planning scenario, not a live farm snapshot. Current reference inputs are:
The repository also contains a conflicting historical 40% operators / 40% public goods / 20% Kokonut Network allocation. The calculator therefore treats 10% only as the current Adelphi modeling assumption, not as a universal Framework rule or authoritative realized distribution.
Review the Adelphi forecast →

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Public goods are configurable by design

The Framework’s PUBLIC GOODS pillar asks:
  • what benefit is being funded?
  • who benefits?
  • how is it financed?
  • how will it be reported?
It does not require every farm to use one allocation percentage. The calculator therefore uses:
public-goods scenario = user-entered gross revenue forecast × user-selected allocation share
That output remains a forecast until the applicable farm agreement, governance decision, revenue actual, and transfer record exist.

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Climate outputs deliberately avoid false precision

The previous calculator estimated carbon tonnage from land area and crop-system multipliers. This version removes that calculation. Why? Because a defensible carbon quantity can depend on:
  • baseline;
  • carbon pools;
  • species and biomass;
  • soil sampling;
  • biochar production/application method;
  • additionality;
  • permanence;
  • leakage;
  • uncertainty;
  • reporting period;
  • methodology;
  • verification requirements.
The calculator can still say:
“This scenario contains climate-relevant practices; plan the required evidence.”
It should not convert a checkbox into carbon tonnes.

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How assumptions become evidence

1. Build the scenario

Enter the farm’s land, worker roles, economic assumptions, crop system, practices, and current evidence plan.

2. Read the SDG statuses as hypotheses

Use the statuses to identify which primary SDGs are relevant and which evidence categories are still missing.

3. Move assumptions into the farm record

Use the Common Data Schema to record the farm context consistently.

4. Put explicit assumptions in the proposal

Label revenue, public goods, production, and impact expectations as forecasts where they are not yet actual.

5. Define the MRV plan

Decide who records, reviews, publishes, and interprets the evidence needed for each material claim.

6. Replace forecasts with actuals over time

Compare the planning scenario with harvest, revenue, labor, ecological, and public-goods records as operations mature.

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What this calculator should never be used to claim

Not an impact certification

Scenario status is not external assurance or scientific verification.

Not an investment model

Revenue forecasts are user assumptions and do not represent returns.

Not a carbon calculator

Climate-relevant practices do not become quantified carbon without a methodology.

Not a farm ranking

The tool does not score one farm as socially or ecologically superior to another.

Not a public-goods rule

The allocation percentage is scenario-specific, not a universal Kokonut requirement.

Not a substitute for actuals

Once real farm records exist, they should replace planning assumptions wherever possible.

Sustainable Development Goals

The Framework’s evidence-aware SDG methodology.

Adelphi SDG Evidence

See how alignment, activity, measured outcome, and impact interpretation are separated at the reference farm.

Common Data Schema

Move scenario assumptions into the shared farm record.

MRV Methodology

Turn operational activity into traceable evidence without confusing attestations with scientific truth.

Adelphi Forecast

Review the assumptions behind the reference revenue scenario.

Pillars of Value

Evaluate WHAT, WHO, HOW MUCH, CONTRIBUTION, RISK, and PUBLIC GOODS without reducing impact to a single score.
A useful impact calculator does not manufacture impact. It makes assumptions explicit enough that real operations and real evidence can later confirm, reject, or improve them.