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PARALLEL SESSION 6C: POULTRY AND PORK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS 8 th Int. Conference on LCA in the
Agri-Food Sector, 1-4 Oct 2012
sive factors for the environmental performance of meat production systems were found to be the overall efficiency
of the production system and the whole complex of feeding.
For monogastric animals, a reduction of environmental impacts by improved feedstuff production and
feeding strategies seems to be most promising. The improvement (e.g. by optimising fertilisation and crop
protection schemes and machinery usage) in the area of feedstuff production is rather a general challenge for
crop production than for animal production. Yet, animal nutrition offers several starting points for reductions
in environmental impacts from feeding. Apart from further increasing the adaptation of diets to the nutritional
needs and therefore reducing excess supply, the integration of environmental aspects in diet planning
has a great potential for reducing environmental impacts of diets fed to animals.
For pork and chicken meat, more intensive production systems tend to have less environmental impacts
per kg of produced meat because of a more efficient use of inputs, particularly feed. This was clearly shown
in this study for chicken production. However, systems with improved animal welfare can produce with
similar environmental impacts as long as animal performance reaches the same level of productivity as it was
the case for pig production. To improve the overall performance of animal production systems it is vital to
keep all aspects of sustainability in mind in order to avoid negative consequences of single improvements of
one aspect in another.
6. Acknowledgement
These research results were developed by ART with the support of COOP. The authors want to thank
Vamilson Prudêncio da Silva for his permission to use data of French and Brazilian chicken production.
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