Livestock Production Areas
Summary (in English): Role, impacts and services provided by European livestock production - Short summary of the collective
scientific assessment report at the request of the French ministries responsible for Agriculture and Environment, in cooperation with the
French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), INRA, November 2016.
Full report (in French): Dumont B. (coord), Dupraz P. (coord.), Aubin J., Batka M., Beldame D., Boixadera J., Bousquet-Melou A., Benoit M., Bouamra-Mechemache Z., Chatellier V., Corson M., Delaby L., Delfosse C., Donnars C., Dourmad J.Y., Duru M., Edouard N., Fourat E., Frappier L., Friant-Perrot M., Gaigné C., Girard A., Guichet J.L., Haddad N., Havlik P., Hercule J., Hostiou N., Huguenin-Elie O., Klumpp K., Langlais A., Lemauviel-Lavenant S., Le Perchec S., Lepiller O., Letort E., Levert F., Martin, B., Méda B., Mognard E.L., MouginC., Ortiz C., Piet L., Pineau T., Ryschawy J., Sabatier R., Turolla S., Veissier I., Verrier E., Vollet D., van der Werf H., Wilfart A. 2016, Rôles, impacts et services issus des élevages en Europe. INRA (France), 1032 pages.
Dataset: B. Dumont, J. Hercule, C. Donnars, and P. Dupraz, "Typology of European livestock production areas." Portail Data Inra, 2018.
Climate change impacts in Europe's regions
Key observed and projected climate change and impacts for the main regions in Europe (source). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Biogeographical regions dataset (source). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in Europe: GHG emissions from agriculture simulated with the MITERRA-Europe model by Jan Peter Lesschen using data representing the situation of 2010. References to source documents:
- Velthof, G.L., Oudendag, D., Witzke, H.P., Asman, W.A.H., Klimont, Z., Oenema, O., 2009. Integrated assessment of nitrogen emissions from agriculture in EU-27 using MITERRA-EUROPE. J. Environ. Qual. 38, 402-417.
- Lesschen, J.P., Van den Berg, M., Westhoek, H.J., Witzke, H.P., Oenema, O. 2011. Greenhouse gas emission profiles of European livestock sectors. Animal Feed Science & Technology, 166-167: 16-28.
- Westhoek, H., Lesschen, J.P., Rood, T., Wagner, S., De Marco, A. Murphy-Bokern, D., Leip, A., van Grinsven, H., Sutton, M.A., Oenema, O. 2014. Food choices, health and environment: effects of cutting Europe’s meat and dairy intake. Global Environmental Change, 26: 196-205.
Solutions
Simone Verzandvoort, Peter Kuikman, Thalisa Slier, René Rietra, Dennis Walvoort, Jan Peter Lesschen, Yke van Randen, Arjan de Jong, 2017. Climate-Smart Agriculture Solutions Database and Spatial Solution Finder. Deliverable 1.2.6_Flagship:CSAb report SDB-SSF. Activity under KAVA ID 1.2.6 of the Flagship Climate-Smart Agriculture Booster. Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen, December 2017.
As a first guidance to farmers, advisors and policy planners in the multitude of information on climate-smart farming, the CSA Booster developed a webtool to find prior ‘baskets of options’ from a limited set of CSA solutions for typologies of regions and farms in Europe. The first version of the webtool, presented in this report, is focused on the dairy sector as one of the agricultural sub-sectors with a high potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The current version of the ‘CSA Spatial Solution Finder’ discloses 32 CSA solutions at farm level against a background of maps on livestock production zones in Europe, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and maps on environmental conditions. The solutions are documented in an online database (the ‘CSA Solutions Database’) on a.o. cost effectiveness, unitary costs, barriers, co-benefits and impacts on the three dimensions of climate-smart agriculture: productivity, mitigation and adaptation.
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