Trade-offs between higher productivity and lower environmental impacts for biodiversity-friendly and conventional cattle-oriented systems

Aymeric Mondière, Michael S. Corson, Julie Auberger, Daphné Durant, Sylvain Foray, Jean-Francois Glinec, Penny Green, Sandra Novak, Frédéric Signoret and Hayo M.G. van der Werf

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 213, issue C

Abstract: Biodiversity loss caused by livestock production is a key environmental issue. Biodiversity-friendly livestock systems aim to favour biodiversity mainly for its own sake. Environmental impacts of biodiversity-friendly livestock systems have not been studied, nor have trade-offs between higher productivity and lower environmental impacts of these systems.

Keywords: Life cycle assessment; Biodiversity; Agroecology; Agricultural rewilding; Energy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103798

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