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ProPig - Strategies to reduce environmental impact by improving health and welfare of organic pigs

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ProPig - Strategies to reduce environmental impact by improving health and welfare of organic pigs
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AKWBHPGM
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3401
Url zotero
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2567444/items/AKWBHPGM
Date ajout
21 avril 2021 12:33
Date modification
21 avril 2021 12:33
Résumé
Robust and competitive organic pig production needs to encompass low environmental impacts and good animal health and welfare. In theory, improving animal health and welfare reduces environmental impacts through decreased medicine use, improved growth rates and feed conversion efficiency. However, as data on environmental impacts are scarce, the extent of such improvement has never been verified on working farms. In organic pig production, health and welfare improvements must be implemented through preventive approaches, optimal disease management and innovative systems regarding outdoor areas. This poses a challenge to the farms. Together, organic regulations, different national welfare regulations and different building traditions have promoted the development of a variety of housing systems, outdoor rearing and management strategies across the EU. The relative environmental impacts of these have not been quantified. This diversity offers real potential to aid improvement, if the ‘best’ can act as role models for others, which might be more effective than adapting practice derived from experimental systems. This project includes data recording on organic pig farms, calculations of nutrient balances and Life Cycle Assessment for several contrasting scenarios and the development and evaluation of farm specific improvement strategies.
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CRAW tags
  • AB - Spécifique
  • CORE Organic
  • FREDO conduite de troupeau
  • FREDO environnement
  • FREDO mode élevage, bien-être et qualité
  • FREDO santé animale
  • GEO Allemagne
  • GEO Danemark
  • GEO Europe
  • GEO France
  • GEO Italie
  • GEO Royaume-Uni
  • GEO République Tchèque
  • GEO Suisse
  • expérience
  • housing
  • husbandry
  • life cycle assessment
  • monogastrique
  • outdoor pig production
  • porc
  • projet
  • élevage
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