Sustainability of meat production beyond carbon footprint: a synthesis of case studies from grazing systems in Uruguay

Picasso, Valentín; Modernel, P; Becoña, Gonzalo; Salvo, Lucía; Gutiérrez, Lucı́a; Astigarraga, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2014.07.005

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“…Working with farmers on changing their management strategies and designing policies to enable economic conditions for this to happen, appear promising avenues to combine production and conservation in this neglected biome. Becoña G, Astigarraga L and Picasso V D 2014 …”

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confidence: 99%

“…The carbon footprint of beef cattle farms on native grassland ranged from 17.5 kg CO 2 eq kg −1 LW gain (Picasso et al 2014) to 46.5 kg CO 2 eq kg −1 LW gain (Ruviaro et al 2014). Mitigation strategies in Northern Campos have been proposed through intensification of production, mainly by increasing forage production and feed quality (Ruviaro et al 2014, Dick et al 2015.…”

Section: Climate Change Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

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Section: Climate Change Mitigationmentioning

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Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

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“…The carbon footprint is a useful indicator for evaluating the environmental impact a consumer' lifestyle might infer on climate change. It provides regulation to identify systems, technologies, or processes to mitigate this impact PICASSO et al (2014). Furthermore, carbon footprint has brought to the same round of discussion farmers, industry, consumers, policy makers, and researchers, to work together to address one of the most challenging problems humanity is facing.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, it was not questioned if the beef was produced in grazing land that according to PICASSO et al (2014) might reduce the production impact to the environment.…”

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Carbon Footprint of Broiler Meat and Beef Brazilian Consumers

Silva¹,

Curi

Lima

et al. 2017

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RESUMO:The present study aimed to compare the carbon footprint of consumers with a similar lifestyle who frequently eat beef and those who eat broiler meat. An online questionnaire was distributed using several networks. The questions were about the customer age, level of education, gender, marital status, family size, type of house, salary, car type, and appropriate actions toward sustainability. A total of 222 answers were analyzed using the Cluster Analysis with a unweight pair-group average and employing Euclidean distance. Mean values were compared using Student Ttest adopting the significance level of 95% (p value ≤ 0.05). After identifying the Clusters, five individuals from each Cluster were randomly selected, and the carbon footprint was calculated. Results indicated that individuals with the same lifestyle that eat beef have a higher carbon footprint (3 t/year) than those who eat broiler meat. . KEYWORDS:Environmental impact, meat consumers, ecological impact, beef production, broiler production RESUMO. O presente estudo visou comparar a pegada de carbono de consumidores com estilo de vida semelhante, que consumiam carne bovina e carne de frango com frequência. Um questionário online foi distribuído usando as redes disponíveis. As questões perguntadas versaram a respeito do perfil do consumidor, constando idade, nível de educação, gênero, estado civil, tamanho da família, tipo de residência, tipo de carro, e ações adotadas visando sustentabilidade. Um total de 222 respostas foi analisado com da aplicação da análise de Cluster adotando peso equitativo de médias e a distância Euclidiana. Os valores médios foram comparados usando o teste T-Student e adotando a significância no nível de 95% (p valor ≤ 0.05). Após a identificação dos agrupamentos das respostas, cinco indivíduos de cada Cluster foram selecionados ao acaso e as pegadas de carbono destes indivíduos foram calculadas. Os resultados indicaram que aqueles indivíduos com o mesmo estilo de vida que consumiram carne bovina apresentaram uma pegada de carbono maior (3 t/ano) do que aqueles que consumiram carne de frango, em todos os grupos estudados.

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“…According to Picasso et al (2014), GHG emission estimations in Uruguay Pampa native grassland production systems are very high, with great potential for emission reduction. The combination of technologies, appropriate management and forage offer optimization can increase animals' productivity and reduce allocated emissions per beef pound (Becoña et al, 2014;Modernel et al, 2013;Soussana, 2009;Bencke, 2009).…”

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Economic and environmental feasibility of beef production in different feed management systems in the Pampa biome, southern Brazil

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Sustainability of meat production beyond carbon footprint: a synthesis of case studies from grazing systems in Uruguay

Cited by 91 publications

References 22 publications

Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

Carbon Footprint of Broiler Meat and Beef Brazilian Consumers

Economic and environmental feasibility of beef production in different feed management systems in the Pampa biome, southern Brazil

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