Dutch software startup Livvie has launched a new food impact calculator, to enable organisations to quantify the impact of initiatives designed to reduce animal-based foods.
The Livvie Business platform measures 22 different parameters that assist users in assessing the environmental, health and animal welfare effects of reducing animal-based food consumption.
“Moving towards plant-based food is often discussed in terms of a lower carbon footprint, but the benefits and the reasons people choose plant-based go well beyond that,” commented Johanna van Langen, PhD, co-founder of Livvie.
“We built Livvie Business so organisations can easily calculate the outcomes their stakeholders and customers care about – helping them make decisions, communicate impact, and build support for initiatives.”
As the company explained, the platform responds to a growing challenge within corporate sustainability strategies, where food-related initiatives are becoming more commonplace, but are difficult to measure in a holistic way – as it notes, ‘many organisations still struggle to quantify outcomes beyond carbon emissions’.
Making impact data accessible
Livvie Business has been designed to make impact data accessible, using available inputs such as the number of meals, food volume, or number of participants, to generate insights. The application is web-based and is available globally, with both free and paid options.
It also seeks to quantify the broader environmental and societal benefits associated with transitioning to plant-based food, with its data model including metrics such as water footprint, land use, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, animal health, and antimicrobial use.
Livvie, which was founded by scientists and software professional, states that its mission is to ‘inspire and empower people and organisations to embrace plant-based food and accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable, healthier, and kinder food system’.
Last August, it launched a global business and event directory dedicated to the plant-based sector, to assist businesses with ‘veganising’ their portfolio or operations. Read more here.
