Demonstration actions to mitigate the carbon footprint of beef production in France, Ireland, Italy and Spain
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Energy efficiency improvement
Suitable for
Precision livestock farming
Special type
Animal healthcare
Agricultural domain
Livestock
Suitable for
Farmer, Advisory services
Applications
Agricultural field practices, Energy provision (e.g. electricity), Other
Especially
Fertilizing, Solid biomass
Type of solution
Methodology, Procedure
Details
Project`s acronym: LIFE BEEF CARBON
Project funding type: EU
Project funding source: LIFE
Project coordinator: Institut de l'Elevage
Coordinator location: France
Coordinator email / Contact form: Josselin.Andurand@idele.fr
Project status: Finished
Total budget: 5,460,512 €
Additional info
The initiative aims at reducing carbon footprint in farms, by decreasing methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions while increasing carbon sequestration in soils
The initiative is improving farming practices efficiency by working on:
- Herd management and animal health
- Forage production (legumes, tannin plants, catch crops,...)
- Soil practices and manure management
- Energy consumption cooling systems and energy production (biogas, solar panels, wood from hedges,....)
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Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- Buildings heat use
- Buildings cooling needs
- Tools and equipment electricity consumption
- Fertilizer reduction
- Manure reduction
- Animal healthcare
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
All registered users are asked to evaluate each FEFTS and when an adequate number of reviews is gathered the results depicted here are updated. Each review is screened in order to avoid malicious practices.
FEFTS providers who do not agree with the assessment results, can send their inquiry to info@agrofossilfree.eu and a direct action based on their petition will be taken.