Launched in July 2012 with the goal of improving the environmental performance of livestock supply chains, the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership (FAO LEAP) presents the third phase of this multi-stakeholder initiative: LEAP3.

In the past years, the LEAP Partnership has enabled a high level of methodological consensus on how to quantify GHG emissions and other environmental impacts from livestock supply chains. It has, amongst others, allowed for a number of quantitative assessments and for technical and policy options to be proposed in order to mitigate the livestock contribution to climate change.

The work programme 2019-2021 contributes to consolidate the current guidance through road testing and dissemination of FAO LEAP guidelines. The goal of LEAP3 is to collect feedback for the improvement of the technical documents and provide guidance for the adoption and application of LEAP guidelines at various scales.

The LEAP3 kick-off meeting will be held on Monday, 21 October 2019, from 13.00 to 17.00, at FAO headquarters. Under the title A leap forward in sustainable livestock production, the event will focus on road testing and factors that can facilitate the use and uptake of FAO LEAP guidelines.

It will aim at raising awareness and facilitating a discussion on livestock production and concrete ways to address its environmental impact, in particular towards the adoption and application of FAO LEAP methodologies at regional, national and local level.

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LEAP1. The first phase of FAO LEAP Partnership (2012-2015), focused mainly on the development of guidelines to quantify the greenhouses gas emissions, energy use and land occupation from feed and animal supply chains as well as the principles for biodiversity assessment.

LEAP2. Know as LEAP2 (2016-2018), the second phase of the Partnership broadened the scope and is focusing on water footprinting, nutrient flows and impact assessment, soil carbon stock changes, quantification of the impact of livestock on biodiversity and assessment the effect of feed additives on GHG emissions.

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