Sustainable Livestock Systems Transition and Evidence Platform for Upgrading Policies
T he STEP UP project aims to provide policymakers with robust evidence on the impacts, externalities, and monetized values of livestock farming in the food system and wider ecosystem. This includes investigating positive and negative impacts and proposing Safe and Just Operating Space (SJOS) concepts, which should all aim for aligning future livestock systems with planetary boundaries.
STEP UP endeavours to pioneer a transformative approach in sustainable livestock systems within the EU, aiming to revolutionise current practices and policy frameworks, by conducting multi-actor case studies, developing comprehensive mapping frameworks, quantifying impacts and externalities, monetizing environmental and social impacts, modelling trade-offs and co-benefits, identifying mitigation and enhancement tools and establishing effective communication and dissemination.