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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...
The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership announces the launch of LEAP3, the LEAP work programme 2019–2021, which aims to consolidate the current guidance through road testing, dissemination of LEAP guidelines, and development and harmonization of tools...
Today the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership launched the public review of the FAO LEAP guidelines on biodiversity assessments and on feed additives in livestock supply chains. The public review starting on 24 July and ending on 24 September...
The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for water use has been working diligently to develop the guidelines on water footprinting for livestock supply chains. The mandate of the TAG was to i) provide recommendations to monitor the environmental performance of feed...
Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Livestock supply chains can strongly affect these processes leading to carbon loss for example through land-use change or improvement of soil carbon storage, which reduces the...