The challenge to improve the measurement of the environmental impacts of livestock supply chains was the focus of the newly formed technical advisory group (TAG) on feed additives by the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership. The first face-to-face...

The LEAP Secretariat calls scientific communities and individual experts on livestock and nutrients modelling, LCA, environmental footprinting and environmental assessment to participate in the review of the draft guidelines for environmental quantification of nutrient flows and impact assessment for livestock...

The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership aims at developing guidance and methodology for environmental assessments of all types of livestock production systems. After having formed a new technical advisory group (TAG) to assess soil carbon stock changes...

Livestock has an important influence on biodiversity, ranging from negative to positive impacts. Due to its intrinsic complexity, including biodiversity in quantitative environmental assessments of the livestock sector is a challenge. After having developed, amongst other, several guidelines for...

Participants of the LEAP Technical Advisory Group on Water Footprinting and Nutrient Cycle Accounting met in Kigali, Rwanda from 15 to 18 November 2016. Experts from the Water Footprinting TAG analyzed the differences in existing methodology namely ISO 14046 and the...