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Sustainable pig production systems (SusPigSys)

Project

Food and consumer protection

This project contributes to the research aim 'Food and consumer protection'. Which funding institutions are active for this aim? What are the sub-aims? Take a look:
Food and consumer protection


Project code: FLI-ITT-08-Ce-0061
Contract period: 01.09.2017 - 30.11.2020
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment

SusPigSys' objective is to collect data on sustainability improvement strategies including trade-offs between pillars and integrate this information in advisory material to help farmers make informed holistic decisions. Project outcomes include an integrative on-farm assessment and feedback tool to help pig farmers to improve their economic, environmental, and societal sustainability (e.g. animal health and welfare), as well as their job satisfaction. Farmers in all partner countries will be actively involved throughout the project to ensure that outcomes meet farmers’ needs. After researchers and stakeholders have identified points to be addressed, a detailed sustainability assessment protocol will be developed based on existing protocols and including the guidelines provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The protocol will be applied on a total of 70 farms in 7 European countries (AT, DE, FI, IT, PL, NL, UK) to generate a database from which a valid, condensed protocol can be developed using multivariate statistics. The condensed protocol will then be applied on 175 farms with various production systems in 7 countries. Data from farm visits will be used for developing an integrative analysis toolbox for summarising farm data, and the protocol and toolbox will be linked with an existing international pig production database to allow enhanced benchmarking. The integrative analysis toolbox will include information on possible trade-offs between the three pillars of sustainability and be integrated in a software to form a farmer decision support tool with farm-individual feedback. In addition, descriptions of best practices will be published in various formats to help farmers learn from each other across borders.

 

Results

An integrative system analysis toolbox was developed for all four pillars of sustainability (economy, environment, society, animal welfare) together with stakeholders and applied on pig farms in seven countries. All project outcomes can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/project/SusPigSys-Sustainable-pig-production-systems-ERA-Net-SusAn

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Framework programme

BMEL Frameworkprogramme 2008

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