Eco-efficiency improvements in FArm systems to REduce livestock emissions

Project Title
Eco-efficiency improvements in FArm systems to REduce livestock emissions
Acronym
FAREemissions
Priority
Priority 2 Eco-innovation: Stimulating the green economy
Lead Beneficiary
Hooibeekhoeve
Contact Person First Name
Magdalena
Contact Person Last Name
Gielis
Email
leen.gielis@provincieantwerpen.be
Address
Hooibeeksedijk 1
P.O. Box
Postal Code
2440
City
Geel
Country
Belgium
Telephone
003214852707
Fax
Central Aim

FAREemissions aims to reduce harmfull emissions (GHG, acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and fine particles) from animal production. FAREemissions will stimulate the adoption and implementation from novel technologies and solutions mitigating harmfull emissions by poultry and dairy farms resulting in a competitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly livestock production, including animal health and welfare.    

Project Description

FAREemissions will reduce GHG emissions by focussing on (1) the adoption and implementation of novel or improved technologies that directly seek to reduce emission (e.g. air-scrubers, fine dust filters) and (2) the development and demonstration of precise management measures to improve animal production and farm effeciency; (a) feed & nutrition efficiency (e.g. improved forage quality), (b) manure management (e.g. manure storage and application), (c) improving animal health while increasing productive lifetime of animals.

Besides knowledge exchange on technologies, solutions and systems to reduce emissions of animal production FAREemission also wants to exchange knowledge on improving monitoring of livestock emissions and results mitigating measures.

Envisaged Output

number of emission reducing technologies jointly improved, tested and demonstrated

number of management measures developped, tested and demonstrated


What is the need for this project?

Agriculture, and animal production, faces the challenges to meet the increasing demand for food safety and security, while contributing to the reduction of GHG emissions envisaged in international agreements en taking animal health and welfare in to account.

Thematic Keywords
Industrial design
Pilots
Reduce carbon emissions
Sustainable resource use
Take up of new technologies
Other Keywords
emission reduction techniques/technology, increase productive lifetime, precise management
Partners Found Already

Experimental Poultry Centre, Geel, Belgium

Partners Searched

research institutes, farmers organisation, advisors, private industry (

Estimated Budget
4.500.000



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