Phase 4 (2022–2024)

In its fourth phase, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership focused on enhancing the dissemination of guidelines through capacity-building initiatives in national projects and regional workshops. This phase also saw the development of new guidelines and technical reports, focusing on ecosystem services, circular bioeconomy, soil carbon in grasslands and methane.

Phase 3 (2019–2021)

In its third phase, the Partnership began road-testing the FAO LEAP guidelines, to ensure their effectiveness and applicability in diverse contexts. Success stories of how guidelines are implemented across the world are continuously published on the “Catalogue of Applications” page of the FAO LEAP website.

Phase 2 (2016–2018)

The second phase, known as LEAP+, broadened the scope and focused on the assessment of livestock impacts on the following impact categories: water footprinting, nutrient flows and impact assessment, soil carbon stock changes and biodiversity. In addition, this phase focused on the development of guidelines to assess the effect of feed additives on greenhouse gas emissions.

Phase 1 (2012-2015)

The first phase of the Partnership focused on the development of guidelines to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and land occupation from feed and animal supply chains as well as the principles for biodiversity assessment.

LEAP Guidelines