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Provedor de dados: | 21
País: | Germany
Título: | Carbon footprints of organic dairying in six European countries—real farm data analysis
Autores: | Hietala, Sanna Maria; Smith, Laurence; Knudsen, Marie Trydeman; Kurpa, Sirpa; Padel, Susanne; Hermansen, John E.
Data: | 2015
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Dairy cattle; Air and water emissions.
Resumo: | Dairy farming is the largest agricultural contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. In this study, the carbon footprint of organic dairying was evaluated by means of a life cycle assessment, based on real farm data from six European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy and United Kingdom.   A total of 34 farms were analysed. The assessment was carried out using an attributional approach with system boundaries from cradle to farm gate. In relation to dairy production, a functional unit of 1 kg of energy corrected milk was used. The results gave an average of 1.32 kg CO2 equivalents per kilogramme of energy-corrected milk with standard deviation of 0.22, which is consistent with recent studies. The main contributor to this is enteric fermentation from producing animals, resulting in 45%of total GHG emissions,which is also consistent with previous studies.
Tipo: | Journal paper

Identificador:

http://orgprints.org/28882/1/Hietala%202015_A10.1007%252Fs13165-014-0084-0.pdf

Hietala, Sanna Maria; Smith, Laurence; Knudsen, Marie Trydeman; Kurpa, Sirpa; Padel, Susanne and Hermansen, John E.   (2015) Carbon footprints of organic dairying in six European countries—real farm data analysis.   Organic Agriculture, 5 (2), pp. 91-100.

Relação: | http://orgprints.org/28882/
Formato: | application/pdf