Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership

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dc.citation.issueMay 2021
dc.citation.volume124
dc.contributor.authorBoulay A-M
dc.contributor.authorDrastig K
dc.contributor.authorAmanullah
dc.contributor.authorChapagain A
dc.contributor.authorCharlon V
dc.contributor.authorCivit B
dc.contributor.authorDeCamillis C
dc.contributor.authorDe Souza M
dc.contributor.authorHess T
dc.contributor.authorHoekstra AY
dc.contributor.authorIbidhi R
dc.contributor.authorLathuillière MJ
dc.contributor.authorManzardo A
dc.contributor.authorMcAllister T
dc.contributor.authorMorales RA
dc.contributor.authorMotoshita M
dc.contributor.authorPalhares JCP
dc.contributor.authorPirlo G
dc.contributor.authorRidoutt B
dc.contributor.authorRusso V
dc.contributor.authorSalmoral G
dc.contributor.authorSingh R
dc.contributor.authorVanham D
dc.contributor.authorWiedemann S
dc.contributor.authorZheng W
dc.contributor.authorPfister S
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-09T20:00:45Z
dc.date.available2024-12-09T20:00:45Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-23
dc.description.abstractThe 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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dc.identifier.citationBoulay AM, Drastig K, Amanullah , Chapagain A, Charlon V, Civit B, DeCamillis C, De Souza M, Hess T, Hoekstra AY, Ibidhi R, Lathuillière MJ, Manzardo A, McAllister T, Morales RA, Motoshita M, Palhares JCP, Pirlo G, Ridoutt B, Russo V, Salmoral G, Singh R, Vanham D, Wiedemann S, Zheng W, Pfister S. (2021). Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership. Ecological Indicators. 124. May 2021.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391
dc.identifier.eissn1872-7034
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1470-160X
dc.identifier.numberARTN 107391
dc.identifier.piiS1470160X2100056X
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/72235
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2100056X
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectWater footprinting
dc.subjectWater productivity
dc.subjectWater scarcity footprint
dc.subjectLivestock production
dc.subjectWater use assessment
dc.titleBuilding consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Health
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