The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently formally announced our membership of the steering committee of the LEAP (Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance) Partnership, a group of experts dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of livestock farming.

As members of the LEAP Partnership, we will play a part in developing science-based guidance and solutions to improve the environmental performance of livestock supply chains.

Compassion joins select group of global players in environmental and food sector

We will join national governments, trade associations, civil society and UN agencies as well as NGOs such as the World Wildlife Fund and the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous People in the LEAP Partnership. We will be the first NGO member to focus specifically on farmed animal welfare.

Federica di Leonardo, our Global Manager of Food Systems Advocacy, said:

“Compassion is honoured to be a member of the Livestock Environmental Assessment Performance Partnership. We are looking forward to contributing to the partnership’s pivotal work in identifying pathways to sustainable animal agriculture.

“We are keen to work with LEAP’s partners to identify and disseminate farming practices for better production, better nutrition, better environment, and better life - leaving no one behind. Together, we can find effective solutions for nature-positive, climate resilient, equitable and humane livestock production systems.”

The LEAP membership followed a recent side event we organised at the FAO in Rome highlighting the need to tackle antibiotic resistance through improved animal health and welfare. The event, called Tackling antimicrobial resistance through improved animal health and husbandry to ensure food security brought together government representatives of Pakistan, Uganda, the UK and Tanzania, as well as FAO representatives and our friends at the World Federation of Animals.

Read more about LEAP.