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Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership
Description/achievement of initiative

The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership is a first-of-its-kind, multi-stakeholder partnership of Governments, Private Sectors, NGOs and CSOs.LEAP guiding principles include: global, inclusive, consensus, transparency, scientific, comprehensive, continuous improvement and adoption. Objective: To build global consensus on science-based methodology, indicators and databases for understanding the environmental performance of livestock supply chains in order to shape evidence-based policy measures and business strategies. Vision: To support the transition towards more sustainable food and agriculture by improving the environmental performance of livestock supply chains while ensuring social and economic viability.

Implementation methodologies

Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) are special groups made up of experts drawn from around the world (academia, private sector and NGOs). They are formed to develop the guidance and methodology for measurement of environmental performance. These groups meet 2-3 times a year in-person and carry out work on-line between meetings. Draft technical documents and data undergo to a multi-step review stretching from an external, independent technical review, to several internal reviews up to a public review in which context relevant scientific communities are specifically targeted.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Capacity-building efforts include: Involvement of regional experts at the level of those TAGs in charge of the various livestock sector-specific guidance documents; Dissemination of LEAP technical documents through FAO website; Involvement of regional experts in reviewing of LEAP data and methodologies; Testing of LEAP guidelines in various countries and in different application contexts; Cooperation with University networks and CSOs.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

LEAP works with governments, industry associations, academia, NGOs & CSOs, and other organizations around the world to build credible, effective and robust accounting methods and metrics that serve as a foundation to address the sustainability challenges faced by the livestock sector. The LEAP Partnership Secretariat is hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in view of its global mandate and within the Partnership plays a coordination and facilitation role. As a neutral forum, FAO provides the setting where stakeholders come together to build a common understanding and dialogue. The Steering Committee provides overall leadership to LEAP and approves the work program. Currently, the Steering Committee is made up of three stakeholder groups representing private sectors, Governments, and Civil Society. Decision-making is made by consensus and the Chair is rotated annually across the three groups.

Partner(s)

Countries: France, The Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, Nigeria. Private sector: International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF); European Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (FEDIOL); International Meat Secretariat (IMS); International Egg Commission (IEC); International Poultry Council (IPC); International Federation for Animal Health (IFAH); International Dairy Federation (IDF); International Council of Tanners (ICT); International Wool and Textiles Organization (IWTO). CSOs and NGOs: International Planning Committee for food sovereignty; World Wildlife Fund (WWF); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); World Vision. Advisory/Observers/Networking: ISO; UNEP; EC; JRC; Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock; Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture; Global Research Alliance, OIE
Progress reports
Goal 2
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
Goal 6
6.4 - By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
Goal 7
7.2 - By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
7.3 - By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
Goal 15
15.3 - By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
15.4 - By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
15.5 - Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
Goal 17
17.14 - Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
05/2015
1) LEAP environmental assessment guidelines on feed supply chains; 2) LEAP enviuronmental assessment guidelines on poultry supply chains; 2) LEAP environmental assessment guidelines on small ruminants supply chains;
12/2015
4) LEAP environmental assessment guidelines on large ruminants supply chains; 5) Review of biodiversity assessment approaches and indicators; 6) LEAP principles on the assessment of livestock impacts on biodiversity; 7) LEAP database on feed crops; 8) LEAP methodological notes
12/2015
9) Draft LEAP enviuronmental assessment guidelines on pigs supply chains
Financing (in USD)
3,075,000 USD
Staff / Technical expertise
FAO
In-kind contribution
France, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, IDF, IEC, IFIF, IMS, IPC, ICT, IWTO, World Vision, IUCN, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, WAMIP, and WWF.
Other, please specify
Technical synergy with the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme
Other, please specify
Technical synergy with the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme

Basic information
Time-frame: 07/2012 - 12/2018
Website
Partners
Countries: France, The Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, Nigeria. Private sector: International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF); European Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (FEDIOL); International Meat Secretariat (IMS); International Egg Commission (IEC); International Poultry Council (IPC); International Federation for Animal Health (IFAH); International Dairy Federation (IDF); International Council of Tanners (ICT); International Wool and Textiles Organization (IWTO). CSOs and NGOs: International Planning Committee for food sovereignty; World Wildlife Fund (WWF); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); World Vision. Advisory/Observers/Networking: ISO; UNEP; EC; JRC; Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock; Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture; Global Research Alliance, OIE
Countries
Contact information
Camillo De Camillis, Manager of the LEAP Partnership, Camillo.DeCamillis@fao.org
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