Carbon footprint and Life Cycle Costing of beef cattle in the Brazilian midwest

Florindo, Thiago José; Florindo, Giovanna Isabelle Bom de Medeiros; Talamini, Édson; Costa, Jaqueline Severino da; Ruviaro, Clândio Favarini

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.021

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“…However, the majority of these papers focus on the study of intensive farms such as meat sheep and beef cattle farms [61]; dairy farms [62,63], and intensive pig farms [64]. Other papers have approached the grazing cattle [65][66][67] and grazing goats [68][69][70] production systems. However, very few papers deal with organic livestock farming [9,71,72] that also includes different species and management systems.…”

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Organic Farming as a Strategy to Reduce Carbon Footprint in Dehesa Agroecosystems: A Case Study Comparing Different Livestock Products

Horrillo

Gaspar

Escribano

2020

Animals

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This study employs life cycle assessment (LCA) for the calculation of the balance (emissions minus sequestration) of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the organic livestock production systems of dehesas in the southwest region of Spain. European organic production standards regulate these systems. As well as calculating the system’s emissions, this method also takes into account the soil carbon sequestration values. In this sense, the study of carbon sequestration in organic systems is of great interest from a legislation viewpoint. The results reveal that the farms producing meat cattle with calves sold at weaning age provide the highest levels of carbon footprint (16.27 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq)/kg of live weight), whereas the farms with the lowest levels of carbon emissions are montanera pig and semi-extensive dairy goat farms, i.e., 4.16 and 2.94 kg CO2eq/kg of live weight and 1.19 CO2eq/kg of fat and protein corrected milk (FPCM), respectively. Enteric fermentation represents 42.8% and 79.9% of the total emissions of ruminants’ farms. However, in pig farms, the highest percentage of the emissions derives from manure management (36.5%–42.9%) and animal feed (31%–37.7%). The soil sequestration level has been seen to range between 419.7 and 576.4 kg CO2eq/ha/year, which represents a considerable compensation of carbon emissions. It should be noted that these systems cannot be compared with other more intensive systems in terms of product units and therefore, the carbon footprint values of dehesa organic systems must always be associated to the territory.

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Organic Farming as a Strategy to Reduce Carbon Footprint in Dehesa Agroecosystems: A Case Study Comparing Different Livestock Products

Horrillo

Gaspar

Escribano

2020

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“…This study further questions the use of area as an FU for system-level environmental evaluation. Florindo et al (2017) used the LCA methodology in combination with life cycle costing (LCC) to evaluate both the CF and economic performance of beef cattle in the Brazilian Midwest. The authors point out that LCA studies often recommend mitigation strategies to reduce environmental footprints while failing to account for economic viability, a trade-off they explicitly consider.…”

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Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems

Takahashi

McAuliffe²,

Lee

2019

Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

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“…Os modelos de negócio circulares podem gerar benefícios, como redução dos custos e reduções nos impactos ambientais (LINDER E WILLIANDER, 2015), porém são necessárias ferramentas de gestão que auxiliem os gestores nesta análise. Neste contexto, autores como Florindo et al (2017), Almeida et al (2017), Niero e Hauschild (2017), Hall (2015) e Bradley, Ryan et al (2018) discutem lacunas na literatura relacionadas com a necessidade de ferramentas e métodos que possam contribuir para uma melhor gestão na EC. Florindo et al (2017) destacaram a importância da adoção de métodos que permitam a integração dos custos de produção com impactos ambientais estabelecidos através do ciclo de vida do produto, a fim de se gerar informação para o processo decisório de uma organização, contribuindo para uma gestão eficaz em termos de combinação na criação de valor ambiental e…”

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Análise dos custos e externalidades no contexto da economia circular

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Carbon footprint and Life Cycle Costing of beef cattle in the Brazilian midwest

Cited by 68 publications

References 27 publications

Organic Farming as a Strategy to Reduce Carbon Footprint in Dehesa Agroecosystems: A Case Study Comparing Different Livestock Products

Organic Farming as a Strategy to Reduce Carbon Footprint in Dehesa Agroecosystems: A Case Study Comparing Different Livestock Products

Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems

Análise dos custos e externalidades no contexto da economia circular

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