FAO LEAP: A global partnership for livestock sustainability

16/04/2024

The FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership is a global multi-stakeholder initiative striving for more sustainable livestock practices. The partnership offers tools to assess and minimize the environmental impacts of livestock systems, and to establish a global consensus on science-based methods to shape effective policies and business strategies.

Livestock and enteric methane

20/10/2022

Burping livestock are a big problem for our planet. When cows and other ruminants eat, their food ferments in their gut and produces methane, which contributes to global warming. FAO and partners are working with countries to assess their greenhouse gas emissions and develop sustainable livestock systems that benefit farmers, the economy, and the planet.

GLEAM-i part 1 Introduction

08/11/2021

This video is part of a series of 3 clips presenting the tool GLEAM-i, the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model- interactive. GLEAM-i is an online and user friendly GHG calculator specific to the livestock sector.

GLEAM-i part 2 Technical features

08/11/2021

This video is part of a series of 3 clips presenting the tool GLEAM-i, the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model- interactive. GLEAM-i is an online and user friendly GHG calculator specific to the livestock sector.

GLEAM i part 3 and 4 practice exercises 2

18/12/2020

This video presents two case studies of GHG calculations with GLEAM-i, the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model-interactive. It will show you how to apply GLEAM-i to estimate GHG emissions and how to reduce them in two exercises, one in cattle production and one in pig production.