Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership
The FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership organised a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to develop reference guidelines on water footprinting for livestock production systems and supply chains. The mandate of the TAG was to i) provide recommendations to monitor the e...
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| author | Anne-Marie Boulay Katrin Drastig Amanullah Ashok Chapagain Veronica Charlon Bárbara Civit Camillo DeCamillis Marlos De Souza Tim Hess Arjen Y. Hoekstra Ridha Ibidhi Michael J. Lathuillière Alessandro Manzardo Tim McAllister Ricardo A. Morales Masaharu Motoshita Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares Giacomo Pirlo Brad Ridoutt Valentina Russo Gloria Salmoral Ranvir Singh Davy Vanham Stephen Wiedemann Weichao Zheng Stephan Pfister |
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| description | The FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership organised a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to develop reference guidelines on water footprinting for livestock production systems and supply chains. The mandate of the TAG was to i) provide recommendations to monitor the environmental performance of feed and livestock supply chains over time so that progress towards improvement targets can be measured, ii) be applicable for feed and water demand of small ruminants, poultry, large ruminants and pig supply chains, iii) build on, and go beyond, the existing FAO LEAP guidelines and iv) pursue alignment with relevant international standards, specifically ISO 14040 (2006)/ISO 14044 (2006), and ISO 14046 (2014). The recommended guidelines on livestock water use address both impact assessment (water scarcity footprint as defined by ISO 14046, 2014) and water productivity (water use efficiency). While most aspects of livestock water use assessment have been proposed or discussed independently elsewhere, the TAG reviewed and connected these concepts and information in relation with each other and made recommendations towards comprehensive assessment of water use in livestock production systems and supply chains. The approaches to assess the quantity of water used for livestock systems are addressed and the specific assessment methods for water productivity and water scarcity are recommended. Water productivity assessment is further advanced by its quantification and reporting with fractions of green and blue water consumed. This allows the assessment of the environmental performance related to water use of a livestock-related system by assessing potential environmental impacts of anthropogenic water consumption (only “blue water”); as well as the assessment of overall water productivity of the system (including “green” and “blue water” consumption). A consistent combination of water productivity and water scarcity footprint metrics provides a complete picture both in terms of potential productivity improvements of the water consumption as well as minimizing potential environmental impacts related to water scarcity. This process resulted for the first time in an international consensus on water use assessment, including both the life-cycle assessment community with the water scarcity footprint and the water management community with water productivity metrics.Despite the main focus on feed and livestock production systems, the outcomes of this LEAP TAG are also applicable to many other agriculture sectors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e29ab94694d34111a20bdc3db36487b02022-12-21T21:32:21ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2021-05-01124107391Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP PartnershipAnne-Marie Boulay0Katrin Drastig1 Amanullah2Ashok Chapagain3Veronica Charlon4Bárbara Civit5Camillo DeCamillis6Marlos De Souza7Tim Hess8Arjen Y. Hoekstra9Ridha Ibidhi10Michael J. Lathuillière11Alessandro Manzardo12Tim McAllister13Ricardo A. Morales14Masaharu Motoshita15Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares16Giacomo Pirlo17Brad Ridoutt18Valentina Russo19Gloria Salmoral20Ranvir Singh21Davy Vanham22Stephen Wiedemann23Weichao Zheng24Stephan Pfister25LIRIDE, Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada; CIRAIG, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, CanadaLeibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Potsdam, Germany; Corresponding author.Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, PakistanPacific Institute, USAInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Experimental Agropecuaria EEA Rafaela, Santa Fe, ArgentinaINAHE – CONICET and UTN FRM Mendoza, ArgentinaFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, ItalyFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, ItalyCranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, United KingdomTwente Water Centre, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands; Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, SingaporeDepartment of Animal and Forage Production, National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia (INRAT), Ariana, TunisiaStockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., CanadaCESQA, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, CanadaAgroDer SC, Mexico DF, MexicoInstitute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, JapanEmbrapa Southeast Livestock, São Carlos, BrazilCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Lodi, ItalyDepartment Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa; Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton South, Melbourne, AustraliaEnvironmental and Process Systems Engineering Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South AfricaCranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, United Kingdom; Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, United Kingdom; College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, United KingdomSchool of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New ZealandEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, ItalyIntegrity Ag and Environment, Toowoomba, Qld, AustraliaChina Agricultural University, ChinaDept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandThe FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership organised a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to develop reference guidelines on water footprinting for livestock production systems and supply chains. The mandate of the TAG was to i) provide recommendations to monitor the environmental performance of feed and livestock supply chains over time so that progress towards improvement targets can be measured, ii) be applicable for feed and water demand of small ruminants, poultry, large ruminants and pig supply chains, iii) build on, and go beyond, the existing FAO LEAP guidelines and iv) pursue alignment with relevant international standards, specifically ISO 14040 (2006)/ISO 14044 (2006), and ISO 14046 (2014). The recommended guidelines on livestock water use address both impact assessment (water scarcity footprint as defined by ISO 14046, 2014) and water productivity (water use efficiency). While most aspects of livestock water use assessment have been proposed or discussed independently elsewhere, the TAG reviewed and connected these concepts and information in relation with each other and made recommendations towards comprehensive assessment of water use in livestock production systems and supply chains. The approaches to assess the quantity of water used for livestock systems are addressed and the specific assessment methods for water productivity and water scarcity are recommended. Water productivity assessment is further advanced by its quantification and reporting with fractions of green and blue water consumed. This allows the assessment of the environmental performance related to water use of a livestock-related system by assessing potential environmental impacts of anthropogenic water consumption (only “blue water”); as well as the assessment of overall water productivity of the system (including “green” and “blue water” consumption). A consistent combination of water productivity and water scarcity footprint metrics provides a complete picture both in terms of potential productivity improvements of the water consumption as well as minimizing potential environmental impacts related to water scarcity. This process resulted for the first time in an international consensus on water use assessment, including both the life-cycle assessment community with the water scarcity footprint and the water management community with water productivity metrics.Despite the main focus on feed and livestock production systems, the outcomes of this LEAP TAG are also applicable to many other agriculture sectors.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2100056XWater footprintingWater productivityWater scarcity footprintLivestock productionWater use assessment |
| spellingShingle | Anne-Marie Boulay Katrin Drastig Amanullah Ashok Chapagain Veronica Charlon Bárbara Civit Camillo DeCamillis Marlos De Souza Tim Hess Arjen Y. Hoekstra Ridha Ibidhi Michael J. Lathuillière Alessandro Manzardo Tim McAllister Ricardo A. Morales Masaharu Motoshita Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares Giacomo Pirlo Brad Ridoutt Valentina Russo Gloria Salmoral Ranvir Singh Davy Vanham Stephen Wiedemann Weichao Zheng Stephan Pfister Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership Ecological Indicators Water footprinting Water productivity Water scarcity footprint Livestock production Water use assessment |
| title | Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership |
| title_full | Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership |
| title_fullStr | Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership |
| title_short | Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership |
| title_sort | building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains outcome and recommendations from the fao leap partnership |
| topic | Water footprinting Water productivity Water scarcity footprint Livestock production Water use assessment |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2100056X |
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