AnimalFuture Steering Animal Production Systems towards Sustainable Future

1. AnimalFutureSteering Animal Production Systems towards Sustainable Future Aart van der Linden, Evelien de Olde, Imke de Boer (WUR), Muriel Tichit (INRA, CO)

2. Project description • AnimalFuture strives to improve the sustainability of livestock farming systems by assessing the multi-dimensional and multi-level effects of innovations. The project aims to identify innovations that will minimise trade-offs between different sustainability aspects such as economic, ecologic or social ones, while maximising synergies and avoiding translocation effects. • To assure practical relevance and feasibility, stakeholders are involved in all project steps

3. Project description • Multidimensional consequences of innovations • Trade-offs & synergies

4. Project description • Identify sustainability issues and innovations in livestock farming in close cooperation with actors (WP1) • Assess the impact of these innovative practices on the benefit-cost portfolio at farm level (WP3) • Identify the trade-offs between costs and benefits at regional, national and EU levels (upscaling) (WP4) • Develop an evidence-based decision support system (DSS) enabling actors of the livestock value chain to select the most appropriate innovative practices to achieve sustainable livestock farming systems (WP2) • Promote sustainable practices among animal production actors (WP5)

5. Preliminaryresults WP1 • Characterisation of the case study regions • Benefits and costs portfolios & list of innovations • Stakeholder workshops / interviews Neumeister et al. 2018 – EAAP presentation

6. Preliminaryresults WP1 • Egg production in the Netherlands • 24 interviews across scales • SWOT, B&C, innovations • animal health & welfare; housing systems; economy; environment; organisation • Priorities from stakeholders & 17 additional farmers

7. Preliminaryresults WP2 • Development of the DSS • Defining indicators and gathering farm data WP4 • Development of a biophysical database of biomass flows of European agriculture (NUTS2) • production on cropland and grasslands • livestock information • consumption of biomass products

8. Preliminary Results WP3 Development of a model library

9. Preliminaryresults WP3 Benefit-cost portfolio suckler farm in France Innovation: cultivating protein crops

10. Preliminaryresults WP5 • Listening tour (integration with WP1) • Summer school • Stakeholder platform • Technology transfer • Demonstration farms • Dissemination to the scientific and non-scientific community

11. Contribution to SusAn research objectives : Which is the contribution of your research to SusAnobjectives • Area 1 (‘Economy’):Improve the productivity, resilience and competitiveness of European Animal Production • Area 2 (‘Environment’):Improve and manage resource use to reduce waste and enhance the environmental sustainability of European animal production • Area 3 (‘Society’):Improve on-farm practices to enhance consumer acceptability and address societal challenges associated with animal welfare, product quality and safety, biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services

12. Contribution to SusAn research objectives : Which is the contribution of your research to SusAnobjectives Benefit & cost portfolios Stakeholder engagement

13. Research Impact on the 3 pillars of sustainability • Does the project adequately address the different pillars? How do the different pillars contribute to the aim of your project? • How relevant are the links made between the pillars?

14. “Outdoor access is nice, is beautiful, however, there are risks” (Poultry farmer )

15. Transnational collaboration: • What is the added value of transnational collaboration? • Is the transnational collaboration beneficial for broad implementation of the results?

16. Multi actor approach: • Is there a strategy to involve relevant stakeholders? • Focus groups, interviews • Stakeholder analysis (power/interest) • Farmers • Are research outcomes validated under practical conditions along the whole value added chain? • Innovations identified by stakeholders • DSS based on farm data • Overall validation at the end

17. Cross-scale approach: In how far does it make sense in the particular research project to target the different levels? How relevant are the interactions seen between the levels? • Key to understanding synergies and trade-offs between levels • Animal – farm – region – national - EU Figure 1. Particulate matter concentration (PM10) in the Netherlands in 2016 (RIVM, 2016)

18. Cross-scale approach: Which is the Impact of the project in terms of knowledge acquisition? • Overview of models • Collaboration • Research techniques Insight in: • Farming practice • Sector organization Figure 2. Total number of models developed in European countries for all livestock species and types (dairy and beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, laying hens, broilers and turkeys)(van der Linden et al. forthcoming).

19. Dissemination and communication strategy: • Is there strategy for exploiting the potential of the projects results? • WP5 activities • Website - https://animalfuture.eu/ • Twitter - @animal_future • EAAP sessions • Do you disseminate the projects results via Open Data? • Interviews are confidential • Open access publications

20. Thanks!