Background

In the past years, the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (FAO LEAP) Partnership has enabled a high level of methodological consensus on how to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts – both negative and positive – from feed and livestock production systems. By collaborating with more than 300 experts from all regions of the world, governments, private sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, LEAP has developed more than ten guidance documents, relying on a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a multi-tiered stepwise review process. Thematic areas include soil carbon storages, nutrient cycles, water use, biodiversity, feed additives and climate change. 

The Phase 3 of the FAO LEAP Partnership (LEAP work programme 2019-2021, known as LEAP3) aims to support the livestock sector and its supply chains towards improving the sustainability of production practices through the application of the FAO LEAP guidelines. LEAP3 also aims to consolidate the current guidance and facilitate the dissemination of the guidelines, collect feedback for their improvement, and provide support for their adoption and application at various scales.

For that purpose, the LEAP Catalogue of Applications will offer an opportunity to unlock the guidelines application’s potential in different countries, scales and production systems, and to open up a wealth of knowledge enabling to boost climate action and environmental improvement. The Catalogue will be a library of applications of the approaches in the FAO LEAP guidelines that will also allow to showcase action and solutions for environmental improvement.

In this first step, LEAP intends to work closely with users worldwide to populate the Catalogue with case studies, assessment findings and data to make it relevant for all countries and across the entire range of production systems. 

To promote the LEAP Catalogue of Applications, this seminar will introduce the assessment approaches in the FAO LEAP guidelines, and the procedure to document applications and report to the LEAP Secretariat for consideration in the Catalogue.

Objectives 

• Raise awareness at the global, regional and national levels about the FAO LEAP guidelines.
• Provide an overview of the assessment approaches in the guidelines, and exchange views with users and stakeholders to clarify content.
• Strengthen national, regional and global collaboration to disseminate the approaches in the LEAP guidelines and promote their application and uptake.
• Engage and empower users in contributing to boost climate action and environmental improvement.
• Enhance dialogue with stakeholder and promote knowledge sharing through the LEAP Catalogue of Applications.  

Expected outcomes 

• Learn how to assess the environmental impact of feed and livestock systems through the approaches in the FAO LEAP guidelines.
• Engage users in the FAO LEAP Partnership.
• Accelerating the adoption of better practices for environmental management.
• Engage participants to use and submit the reporting template and contribute to sharing evidence-based knowledge through the Catalogue of Applications.

Primary audience

This virtual event welcomes everyone committed to the environmental improvement of feed and livestock production systems,

In particular, the targeted audience of this seminar includes:

• Researchers, scholars and consultants focusing on climate action or investigating solutions for better environmental management of feed and livestock producers.
• livestock producers who wish to develop inventories of their on-farm resources and assess the performance of their production systems.
• supply chain partners, such as feed producers, farmers and processors, seeking a better understanding of the environmental performance of products in their production processes;
• policymakers interested in developing accounting and reporting specifications for livestock supply chains.

Format 

The Seminar will take place virtually on 25 January 2021 and be organized in 2 sessions, 2.5 hours each.

Time 

• Europe, Africa, Asia and Pacific: 9:00-11:30 (Rome time)
• Americas: 16:00-18:30 (Rome time)   

Related document

Reporting template: This template is instrumental to share knowledge produced through the application of the FAO LEAP guidelines in view of stimulating climate action and environmental improvement.  The template can also be used to provide the LEAP Secretariat with technical feedback and, hence, contribute to increase quality of the FAO LEAP guidelines over time.  Download the file.