Imagine trying to prove your farm is 'green' but having no standard ruler to measure it. This project creates a universal set of measurements for livestock farming, covering everything from soil health to animal welfare. It's like building a comprehensive health check for the entire livestock industry to show exactly where it helps or hurts the planet.
Livestock producers and policy makers lack standardized, quantitative data to prove the sustainability of their systems. This leads to inefficient policies and difficulty in monetizing the positive environmental impacts of farming.
A data platform containing 1,517 mapped indicators and 16 identified externalities across 8 impact categories, including economic and soil health.
If you are a software provider dealing with vague sustainability reporting — this project developed 1,517 indicators that provide a precise way to track environmental and social impacts. This allows your users to quantify their positive externalities for regulators.
If you are a lender dealing with climate risk assessment for livestock portfolios — this project developed forecast scenarios and monetized impact models. This helps you price risk based on the actual sustainability and resilience of the production system.
If you are a processor dealing with supply chain transparency requirements — this project developed a nutritional life-cycle assessment (n-LCA) and true cost accounting. This enables you to prove the actual value and footprint of your sourced livestock products.
Based on available project data, no pricing or cost structure for the platform has been disclosed as it is a research-funded initiative.
The project is currently in the research and data-mapping phase, having identified 1,517 indicators, but it is not yet a deployed industrial tool.
Based on available project data, there is no specific information regarding patents or licensing terms for the developed indicators.
The project aims to provide science-based evidence to support European policy makers in creating objective policy measures for livestock systems.
The project period runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31, indicating that final results and platforms will be available toward the end of 2027.
The project is heavily research-driven, consisting of 16 partners across 10 countries. It is dominated by research organizations (9) and universities (4), with a notable absence of large industrial partners (0% industry ratio) and only 2 SMEs. This suggests the output will be highly academic and policy-oriented rather than a commercial off-the-shelf product.
Contact TEAGASC in Ireland for technical details on the indicator platform.
Contact us to track when these 1,517 indicators become available for commercial integration.
