One of the key parts of IFIF’s mission is to continue to support and encourage the sustainable development of animal production.

SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS
Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability Project (SFIS)
Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI)
Partnership on Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP)
Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
Nutritional Innovation to promote Animal Health and Welfare

One of the key Pillars underlying IFIF is working with its members to ‘support sustainable animal production systems: produce more, using less and even better at an affordable cost to the consumer’.

The IFIF Sustainability Committee, made up of senior leaders and sustainability experts, has defined the following mission for IFIF in this important area:

Mission: IFIF fosters animal nutrition innovation and efficiency and supports and encourages the development and use of science-based global guidance to measure, benchmark and improve environmental performance and sustainability of animal production.

IFIF works with key stakeholders and partners to advance sustainable animal production systems. Animal nutrition is an essential part of the solution to make the livestock production chain more sustainable and IFIF strives to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including ‘Zero Hunger’, ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’, Responsible Consumption and Production’ and ‘Climate Action’.

IFIF with its Members undertakes & is involved in a number of initiatives across 3 Action Areas to support this vision & mission:

• Action Area 1: Measure & Benchmark Feed Impact
• Action Area 2: Sustainability through Animal Nutrition
• Action Area 3:: Driving Good Sustainability Practices

Over the last decades through innovation and efficiency, animal feed has proven to be an essential part of the solution to make the livestock production chain more sustainable.

Over the last decades through innovation and efficiency, animal feed has proven to be an essential part of the solution to make the livestock production chain more sustainable.

IFIF’s work with our members, as well as international organizations, such as FAO, as well as our agri-food chain partners to measure, benchmark and reduce the greenhouse gases (GHG) impact of livestock production globally.

These efforts continue strongly and IFIF provides leadership and expert input to FAO-led sustainability initiatives, including the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock and the Partnership on Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP). In September 2020, LEAP published the guidelines on the environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains, which follows the publication of the Global Feed LCA Guidelines methodology in April 2015 – these guidelines represented a significant achievement and milestone.

Furthermore, IFIF has developed a number of strategic initiatives to measure and benchmark the environmental performance of the livestock production chain. IFIF is founding member of the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI), which used the FAO LEAP methodology to develop a golden global standard for assessing and benchmarking feed industry impact and improvement in LCA calculation, in order to support the reduction of the environmental footprint of livestock products.

IFIF has also together with the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA) and a consortium of international companies and associations, launched the Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability Project (SFIS), which measured and established the role of specialty feed ingredients (SFIs) on the environmental impact of livestock production.