Taking the steps towards sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey

MJ Rivero; Alexander CO Evans; A Berndt; A Cartmill; Andrew Dowsey; A Farruggia; C Mignolet; Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo; Dave Chadwick; DI McCracken; Dennis Busch; Fabiana Pereyra; Graeme B Martin; Gregg Sanford; H Sheridan; Iain Wright; Lauren Brunet; M Eisler; N Lopez-Villalobos; P Rovira; P Harris; P Murphy; Prysor Williams; Randall D Jackson; R Machado; P T Suraj; T Puech; Tommy M Boland; W Ayala; Michael Lee

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Taking the steps towards sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey

MJ Rivero^*, Alexander CO Evans, A Berndt, A Cartmill, Andrew Dowsey, A Farruggia, C Mignolet, Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo, Dave Chadwick, DI McCracken, Dennis Busch, Fabiana Pereyra, Graeme B Martin, Gregg Sanford, H Sheridan, Iain Wright, Lauren Brunet, M Eisler, N Lopez-Villalobos, P RoviraP Harris, P Murphy, Prysor Williams, Randall D Jackson, R Machado, P T Suraj, T Puech, Tommy M Boland, W Ayala, Michael Lee

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Abstract

Implications
• The Global Farm Platform was conceived and established to explore multidisciplinary strategies for
optimising the sustainability of ruminant livestock systems around the world.
• International sustainability issues are common, but
the solutions are often region-specific; therefore, our
farms, situated across all major agroclimatic zones, are
a unique resource worldwide.
• Each farm is following ‘steps to sustainable livestock’ to improve their production system(s), thereby
developing robust metrics to progress economic, environmental and social viability.
• The consortium works collaboratively to improve the
sustainability of ruminants, which we argue are a vital
component of global food systems, delivering both
human and planetary health

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	52-58
Number of pages	7
Journal	Animal Frontiers
Volume	11
Issue number	5
Early online date	20 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab048
Publication status	First published - 20 Oct 2021

Keywords

circularity
grazing systems
mixed farming
precision farming
research farms
ruminant livestock

UN SDGs

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Rivero, MJ., Evans, A. CO., Berndt, A., Cartmill, A., Dowsey, A., Farruggia, A., Mignolet, C., Enriquez-Hidalgo, D., Chadwick, D., McCracken, DI., Busch, D., Pereyra, F., Martin, G. B., Sanford, G., Sheridan, H., Wright, I., Brunet, L., Eisler, M., Lopez-Villalobos, N., ... Lee, M. (2021). Taking the steps towards sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey. Animal Frontiers, 11(5), 52-58. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab048

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