Life Cycle Assessment of Iberian Traditional Pig Production System in Spain
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García-Gudiño, Javier
Monteiro, Alessandra N.T.R.
Espagnol, Sandrine
Garcia-Launay, Florence
Fecha de publicación
2020-01-15ISSN
2071-1050
Resumen
Traditional Iberian pig production is characterized by outdoor systems that produce animals fed with natural resources. The aim of this study was to assess the environmental impacts of such systems through Life Cycle Assessment. Environmental impacts were analysed per kilogram of live weight at farm gate. Iberian pig production in montanera had the lowest impacts for climate change (CC), acidification (AC), eutrophication (EU) and cumulative energy demand (CED), being 3.4 kg CO2 eq, 0.091 molc H+ eq, 0.046 kg PO43− eq, and 20.7 MJ, respectively, due to the strict use of natural resources (acorns and grass) during the fattening period. As Iberian farms had a greater dependence on compound feed in cebo campo, environmental impacts on CC, AC, EU and CED were 22, 17, 95 and 28% higher, respectively, than with montanera. For land occupation (LO), however, cebo campo had a lower impact (31.6 m2·year) than montanera (43.0 m2·year) system. Traditional Iberian pig production systems have environmental impacts higher than conventional systems studied in literature but are similar to other traditional systems. Based on the present assessment, it is necessary to account for the contribution of emissions resulting from the consumption of natural resources to avoid the underestimation of environmental impacts.
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Artículo
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English
Materias (CDU)
636 - Explotación y cría de animales. Cría del ganado y de animales domésticos
Páginas
1-18
Publicado por
MDPI
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Sustainability
Citación
García-Gudiño, Javier, Alessandra N. T. R. Monteiro, Sandrine Espagnol, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, and Florence Garcia-Launay. 2020. "Life Cycle Assessment Of Iberian Traditional Pig Production System In Spain". Sustainability 12 (2): 627. MDPI AG. doi:10.3390/su12020627.
Número del acuerdo de la subvención
INIA/Programa Estatal de promoción del talento y su empleabilidad en I+D+I/RTA2013-00063-C03-02/ES/Caracterización y eficiencia de agroecosistemas para una producción de cerdos Ibéricos más sustentable/
Program
Benestar Animal
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