Sustainability aspects of aw promoting livestock systems
SOA
17
Internal project
Action 1 - Leading Institute:
Project summary
Establishing a multidisciplinary scientific network to include Animal Welfare within the scope of livestock sustainability (economics, environmental and social performances). The objective of this network is to produce foresight and priority reports on Animal Welfare friendly livestock systems, terrestrial and aquatic animals that limit trade-offs and favour synergies with other sustainability dimensions.
Project objectives
- Gather specialists in animal welfare, animal health and animal sciences together with scientific experts in other dimensions of sustainability (economics, social and environmental);
- Propose shared approaches and tools necessary for assessing sustainability (multi-criteria assessment) and considering the One Welfare concept (https://www.onewelfareworld.org/);
- Identify knowledge gaps and innovations based on selected case studies and a review of the available literature and project outputs;
- Identify trade-offs as well as synergies between animal welfare and other dimensions of sustainability;
- Propose specific consortia for different livestock systems that concern both terrestrial and aquatic animals (aquaculture and fisheries), and that embrace all aspects of livestock systems (on-farm, during transport and at the end of life). These specific consortia shall fill knowledge gaps and design systems that promote animal welfare while reducing (or at least not increasing) negative impacts on the other sustainability criteria.
Outcomes and impacts
- Seek to identify livestock systems that favour synergies toward winwin strategies or at least limit antagonisms between animal welfare improvement and other sustainability criteria.
- Provide long-term policy makers and stakeholders with the knowledge they need to make fully informed choices on green transition (European “Green Deal”).