Environmental impacts of extensive outdoor pig production systems in Corsica
- Titre
- Environmental impacts of extensive outdoor pig production systems in Corsica
- Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector
- Créateur
- Sandrine Espagnol
- Julie Demartini
- Sujet
- LCA
- Natural feed
- Outdoor systems
- Pigs
- Résumé
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The extensive outdoor pig production systems in Corsica are quite different from the conventional production of Europe. Because of the
longer lifetime of pigs and the lower technical performance of animals, the environmental impacts of a kilogram of pig until it leaves the
farm gates could be expected to be greater. The diets of pig have to be considered because the animals are fed partly with natural feed like
acorns and chestnuts. The hypothesis is made that those feedstuffs which grow naturally without any human mediation do not have any environmental impact. Three Corsican systems with an increasing amount of natural feed in the diet were assessed using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The results per kg of pig indicate a decrease of 62-81% for selected impacts from the system with the least amount of natural feeding to the more extensive system. By comparison, the conventional production systems of Europe previously assessed by Dourmad et al. (2012) have intermediate results - pages
- 364-371
- Langue
- en
- Collections
- Aspects environnementaux
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