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Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek KU Leuven
There is a need for participatory methods that simultaneously assess agricultural sustainability and resilience at farming
system level, as resilience is needed to deal with shocks and stresses on the pathways to more sustainable systems. We present the Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Resilient FARMing systems (FoPIA-SURE-Farm). FoPIA-SUREFarm investigates farming system functioning, dynamics of main ...
system level, as resilience is needed to deal with shocks and stresses on the pathways to more sustainable systems. We present the Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Resilient FARMing systems (FoPIA-SURE-Farm). FoPIA-SUREFarm investigates farming system functioning, dynamics of main ...
Validating sustainability indicators: focus on ecological aspects of Flemish dairy farms Universiteit Gent
Higher sustainability performance of intensive grazing versus zero-grazing dairy systems Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent
Although grazing of dairy cows is an integral part of dairy farming in many European countries, farmers today more often choose for zero-grazing systems, where cows are housed throughout the year. Some studies already compared grazing and zero-grazing systems for specific issues such as labor efficiency, environmental impact, or animal welfare. In our study, we perform a more integrated evaluation, considering relevant ecological, economic, and ...
Potential of life cycle assessment to support environmental decision making at commercial dairy farms Universiteit Hasselt
In this paper, we evaluate the potential of life cycle assessment (LCA) to support environmental decision making at commercial dairy farms. To achieve this, we follow a four-step method that allows converting environmental assessment results using LCA into case-specific advice for farmers. This is illustrated in a case-study involving 20 specialized Flemish dairy farms. Calculated LCA indicators are normalized into scores between 0 and 100, ...
Communicative farm-specific diagnosis of potential simultaneous savings in costs and natural resource demand of feed on dairy farms Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Feed plays a key role for dairy farmers to produce in an environmentally sustainable and competitive way. It determines both costs and natural resource demand. In this paper, we investigated whether and how dairy farms could simultaneously reduce feed costs and overall natural resource use in the feed supply chain without reducing farm revenues. We applied the frontier method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on a data sample of specialized dairy ...
Combining frontier analysis and Exergetic Life Cycle Assessment towards identification of economic-environmental win-win situations on dairy farms Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
In light of environmental concerns about livestock farming and high pressure on profit margins in milk production, dairy farmers face the challenge to produce in an environmentally sustainable, yet competitive way. In this study, we aim to investigate whether and how economic-environmental win-wins can be achieved for dairy farms in the region of Flanders (Belgium). From an environmental viewpoint, we focus on natural resource use (land, water, ...
Exergy-based natural resource accounting in sustainability assessment of agricultural production systems Universiteit Gent
We consume global natural resource stocks at an unsustainable rate, which endangers long-term resource availability and which causes environmental pollution. Mitigating pollution and increasing resource efficiency is a major challenge in our societyU+2019s sustainable development. To measure and evaluate natural resource use of entire production chains, exergy analysis and life cycle assessment are increasingly performed. Exergy analysis, ...
What's the issue? Studying supply and demand side of online issue strategies of politicians Universiteit Antwerpen
Social media have become an integral part of contemporary politics. Politicians have embraced platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as tools in campaigns but also in daily politics. At the same time citizens also indicate that they receive large parts of their political news from social media and increasingly are starting to follow politicians on social media. Therefore, we could ask ourselves what content citizens get exposed to through the ...
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale(1-3). Here we report the integrative analysis of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas ...