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Reduction of the ecological footprint of lamb meat through resource efficient and climate-friendly production
Project
Project code: 2817ERA12D
Contract period: 01.09.2017
- 29.02.2020
Budget: 138,696 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: resource protection, resource efficiency, husbandry techniques, meat, sustainability, small ruminants, husbandry techniques
The main objective of the project is the environmental, economic and the animal welfare evaluation of intensive and extensive lamb meat production systems in Europe and Turkey by considering resource efficiency, global warming, biodiversity, land use, lamb meat quality and safety as well as animal welfare and barriers of competitiveness. A further goal is the promotion of the niche 'lamb (meat)”. Different lamb farms (20 case studies) will be analysed regarding - beside other - relevant life cycle stages to identify management and site typical potentials or eventually occurring shift of burdens. These goals are reached through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), LCA based Biodiversity Assessment, Land Use Assessment using the LANCA® method, as well as analysis of animal welfare and meat quality. Derived sustainability indicators about the efficient and sustainable use of resources and the increase of animal welfare, meat quality and the competiveness should form a standard of sustainability analysis for diverse European lamb production systems. To reach these goals the consortium should involve European and Turkish farms to address - beside the project management (work package WP1) - the following points. These are to: - analyse and increase the ecologic (incl. LCA, resource efficiency, biodiversity, land use) and economic parameters (WP 2), - evaluate the effects of management strategies on characteristics of meat quality and safety by e.g. meat analysis (WP 3), - identify the relations between management, animal welfare and health by health analysis of e.g. stress parameters (WP 4), - identify (social) barriers, to develop solutions to increase the competiveness as well as the management and political recommendations for the niche sector (WP 5), - present effectively the results and discuss them on workshops (WP6)
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal breeding
- Resource management
- Climate Change
