The Food ScoreCard is an important tool that evaluates the contribution made by the food and beverage industry to South Australia’s economy from production to consumption.
It also identifies opportunities for future growth.
Read the latest 2007-08 SA Food ScoreCard Report
The Food ScoreCard was developed in 1999 to gather baseline data to measure the food industry’s achievements and track its progress towards its $15 billion target by 2010.
The ScoreCard monitors all food and beverages, either produced or consumed in South Australia, with detailed analysis on key points along the food value chain.
The Food ScoreCard consists of the following industries:
A separate Wine scorecard is also produced.
Measures used to value the food industry include local farm production values; value-added processing; overseas and interstate trade exports and imports at both the commodity and processed level, as well as consumption through food retail and food hospitality.
The ScoreCard analyses both the volume and value of sales at each stage, and also looks at economic performance indicators, such as employment and capital investment.
Sources of information used to derive the ScoreCard include the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), South Australian Government agencies such as SARDI, industry bodies, and specific key industry and regional sources.
The Food ScoreCard has been expanded to include triple bottom line reporting, measuring environmental and social as well as economic impacts.
The aim is to provide a set of generic indicators that tracks economic growth and also includes: