1.
From tools to action, the feed
industry perspective
LEAP annual meeting
Rome, 21st September 2017
Nicolas MARTIN
European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC)
Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI)

2.
Outline
• Need for action
• Two concrete examples of implementation of
LEAP products
– At EU level: the Feed Product Enviromnental
Footprint project
– At global level: the Global Feed LCA institute
• Next steps

3.
The need to measure the
impact on the environment
• Feed and livestock industry
under pressure (market
and institutional pressure)
• Need to communicate on
reliable figures
• No green washing
• Common methodology is
pre-competitive and part of
customers expectations
• Sustainable development is
an opportunity !

4.
What is at stake?
• Credibility
• Transparency
• Reliability
• Consistent reporting
• Capacity to demonstrate continuous
improvement

5.
Feed supply chains are global so we need a global response
(example of Spain maize imports)
Source: FAOSTAT http://faostat.fao.org/DesktopModules/Faostat/WATFDetailed2/watf.aspx?PageID=536

6.
The Feed PEF pilot project

7.
What’s on the EU agenda?
• CAP post 2020 Review
• Circular Economy
• Implementation of Paris COP21 agreement
• EU action plan on deforestation
• EU Single market for green products

8.
Building the Single Market for
Green Products
• General objective
– Improve the availability of reliable information on the
environmental performance of products and organisations
– Enable informed choice by consumer
• Specific objective
– Promote the use of a common methodology to assess and
communicate the environmental performance of products and
organisations
• Operational objectives
– Launch 2 methodologies, simple but also robust, one for
products (PEF), one for organisations (OEF)
– Encourage the take-up of the methodologies in Member
States and by private sector
– Develop Product Category Rules through an open,
transparent, multi-stakeholder process

9.
Pilot test of the PEF
• 3 main objectives
– PEFCR development
– Verification
– Communication
• 2 waves
– Non food
– Food
• End of pilot: January / February 2018
• Integration in new or existing policies as from
2018

10.
The Feed PEF pilot
• Set the ground for harmonized communication of
environmental performance of feed and feed
products, in line with the technical requirements of
the European Commission
• Avoid distortion of competition, by setting pre-
competitive and harmonized methodological rules
• Build on the value already created with existing
projects: LEAP feed guidelines as main reference!
• Breaking down internationally accepted
methodologies to the European level
• Coordinated input for livestock projects

11.
Feed Technical Secretariat

12.
The Feed PEFCR
• Fully consistent with LEAP Guidelines
• Facilate consistency at EU and global level
• Synergies and economies of scale
• Sometimes more prescriptive than LEAP Guidelines
• Experience gathered during the feed PEFCR can be
useful to improve LEAP guidelines (road testing)

13.
What’s next on the EC
agenda?
15
Policy discussion
Future
policies
Peer review of the pilot phase
and of alternative methods tested
under similar conditions
Internal evaluation of the pilots

14.
GFLI mission (1/2)
• Implement the internationally
recognized FAO/LEAP methodology by
developing a high quality globally
recognized and harmonized public
DATABASE to support meaningful
LCAs of livestock products

15.
GFLI mission (2/2)
• Develop and build a feed specific
publicly available (free) LCA TOOL to
facilitate environmental assessments
and the measurement of continuous
improvement, which is both
comparable and measurable across
world regions.

16.
GFLI
database
GFLI tool
Improvement of
environmnental
perfomance of
livestock products
Feed
community
• Education and
training
• Hotspot analysis
• Identification of
mitigation options
Institutional
partners
Livestock
commodity
groups
Scientific
community
Other
initiatives
• Facilitate access to data
• Improve quality of assessment
• Support policy development

17.
Keys to Success
• Credible
• Transparent
• Reliable
• Consistent
• Ability for continuous improvement
• Globally accepted & adopted
• FREE access for users

18.
Livestock Feed Supply Chains

19.
GFLI Members

20.
GFLI feed PEF tender datasets
• More than 1,500 datasets
Unprocessed feed
ingredients of
vegetable origin
Processed feed
ingredients of
vegetable origin
Processed feed
ingredients of
animal origin
Processed feed
ingredients of
mineral origin
Combined with
different
geographical
origins

21.
Next steps: feed industry
perspective
• Need to bridge the gap between LEAP
scientific products and concrete
implementation by feed companies
• Need to further develop nutritional modelling to
capture feed efficiency: TAG on specialty feed
ingredients
• Need to expand the scope of LEAP activities to
aquaculture

22.
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