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gleam: Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM-X)

The official implementation of the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in R. GLEAM-X provides a modular, transparent framework for simulating livestock production systems and quantifying their environmental impacts. Methodological background: MacLeod et al. (2017) "Invited review: A position on the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)" <doi:10.1017/S1751731117001847>. Further information: <https://www.fao.org/gleam/en/>.

Version: 0.8.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.0.0), data.table (≥ 1.16.0)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.2.0)
Published: 2026-04-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gleam (may not be active yet)
Author: Ahmed Jou ORCID iD [aut, cre] (https://applitics.fr), Yassine Elaouni [aut] (https://applitics.fr), Dominik Wisser ORCID iD [aut] (GLEAM team lead, FAO), Lydia Lanzoni ORCID iD [aut] (Livestock and climate change specialist, FAO), Giuseppe Tempio ORCID iD [aut] (Livestock environmental impact analyst, FAO), Phyllis Ndungu' [ctb] (Livestock and climate change specialist, FAO), Yushan Li [ctb] (Livestock and sustainability specialist, FAO), Manling Xu [ctb] (Livestock data intern, FAO), Zixin Wang [ctb] (Livestock data intern, FAO), Narindra Rakotovao [ctb] (Livestock policy officer, FAO), Stewart Chikoloma [ctb] (Livestock data specialist, FAO), David OBrien ORCID iD [ctb] (https://applitics.fr), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO [cph] (Original GLEAM model framework), Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity of Germany BMELH [fnd] (Funding support)
Maintainer: Ahmed Jou <ahmed at applitics.fr>
BugReports: https://github.com/un-fao/GLEAM/issues
License: AGPL-3
URL: https://github.com/un-fao/GLEAM/, https://www.fao.org/gleam/en/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: gleam results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gleam.html , gleam.pdf
Vignettes: The GLEAM Ecosystem (source, R code)
The History of GLEAM (source, R code)
GLEAM R Package Modules (source, R code)
GLEAM R Package Overview (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: gleam_0.8.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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