The agri-food sector is one of the key sectors where the action is needed to ensure the transition to a more sustainable development model in line with the principles of the circular economy (CE). The use of indicators to monitor progress and areas for action is a key element in the shift of companies, regions, and countries toward a circular model.

This study aims to create a dashboard that can be used at various spatial levels to guide the agri-food sector toward a CE and sustainable development. Starting with the relevant literature, we identified 102 indicators classified according to three areas of sustainability (environmental, economic and social) and spatial dimensions (macro‑meso-micro) within 8 scopes.

The dashboard provides a toolbox for directing decision-making processes and strategies through the targeted use of indicators with respect to the context in which the CE is applied.

In addition, the dashboard allows us to highlight missing aspects related to (1) new indicators not covered by the tool; (2) new scopes not yet explored in the literature; and (3) the need to adopt cross-sectional indicators. For this last aspect, the analysis revealed only 17 such indicators.

A future step is to define the most suitable configurations among the indicators in which CE is generated, starting from the test of the indicators at the micro level to validate their applicability and consider the impacts they may have at the macro or meso levels.

农业食品部门是需要采取行动以确保过渡到符合循环经济 (CE) 原则的更可持续发展模式的关键部门之一。使用指标来监测进展和行动领域是公司、地区和国家向循环模式转变的关键因素。

本研究旨在创建一个可用于不同空间级别的仪表板，以指导农业食品部门实现 CE 和可持续发展。我们从相关文献入手，根据可持续性（环境、经济和社会）三个领域和空间维度（宏观-中观-微观）在 8 个范围内确定了 102 个指标。

仪表板提供了一个工具箱，用于通过有针对性地使用与 CE 应用环境相关的指标来指导决策过程和策略。

此外，仪表板允许我们突出显示与（1）工具未涵盖的新指标相关的缺失方面；(2) 文献中尚未探索的新范围；(3) 采用横截面指标的必要性。对于最后一个方面，分析只揭示了 17 个这样的指标。

下一步是在产生 CE 的指标中定义最合适的配置，从微观层面的指标测试开始，以验证它们的适用性，并考虑它们在宏观或中观层面可能产生的影响。