Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391
Title: Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership
Authors: Boulay, Anne-Marie
Drastig, Katrin
Amanullah, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan.
Chapagain, Ashok
Charlon, Veronica
Civit, Barbara
DeCamillis, Camillo
De Souza, Marlos
Hess, Tim
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. 
Ibidhi, Ridha
Lathuillière, M.J.
Manzardo, Alessandro
McAllister, Tim
Morales, Ricardo A.
Motoshita, Masaharu
Palhares, Julio Cesar Pascale
Pirlo, Giacomo
Ridoutt, Brad
Russo, Valentina
Salmoral, Gloria
Singh, Ranvir
Vanham, Davy
Wiedemann, Stephen
Zheng, Weichao
Pfister, Stephan
Keywords: Livestock production
Water footprinting
Water productivity
Water scarcity footprint
Water use assessment
Issue Date: 1-May-2021
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Citation: Boulay, Anne-Marie, Drastig, Katrin, Amanullah, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan., Chapagain, Ashok, Charlon, Veronica, Civit, Barbara, DeCamillis, Camillo, De Souza, Marlos, Hess, Tim, Hoekstra, Arjen Y., Ibidhi, Ridha, Lathuillière, M.J., Manzardo, Alessandro, McAllister, Tim, Morales, Ricardo A., Motoshita, Masaharu, Palhares, Julio Cesar Pascale, Pirlo, Giacomo, Ridoutt, Brad, Russo, Valentina, Salmoral, Gloria, Singh, Ranvir, Vanham, Davy, Wiedemann, Stephen, Zheng, Weichao, Pfister, Stephan (2021-05-01). Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership. Ecological Indicators 124 : 107391. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: 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. © 2021 The Author(s)
Source Title: Ecological Indicators
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/232094
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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