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Co-designed Welfare Monitoring Platform for Pig and Dairy Cattle

Descripción del proyecto

Una plataforma para controlar el bienestar del ganado

El ganado porcino y el vacuno destinado a la producción láctea son los dos modelos ganaderos más frecuentes en Europa. Por otro lado, si bien se reconoce la necesidad de que estos animales disfruten de bienestar para lograr una ganadería sostenible, los sistemas actuales para comprobar dicho bienestar son demasiado lentos y caros. La tecnología de ganadería de precisión permite un mayor control del bienestar y mejora los procesos ganaderos. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos ClearFarm se propone utilizar esta tecnología y datos sobre los animales para aumentar el bienestar animal en la cadena de producción al completo. La plataforma ofrecerá información a partes interesadas y consumidores sobre el bienestar animal en los sistemas de producción y tendrá en cuenta las diferencias geográficas entre regiones de Europa.

Objetivo

Animal welfare has become a fundamental aspect of livestock production. Current animal welfare assessment tools usually rely on momentary recordings and on awkward integration of various indicators with different units. Besides, existing tools to assess farm animal welfare are time consuming and costly. Precision livestock farming (PLF)-technology allows to monitor and optimise farming processes. PLF systems generate large volumes of on-farm data that can be used to monitor welfare in pigs and dairy cattle.

ClearFarm proposes to use PLF technology and integration of animal-based data, based on a blockchain approach, to enable improved animal welfare across the entire production chain. This will contribute to improved sustainable pig and dairy cattle production, the two livestock production systems with the highest shares in Europe.
ClearFarm aims to co-design, develop and validate a software platform powered by an algorithm integrating PLF data to provide animal welfare information, as well as other environmental and economic sustainability information that will assist (i) production chain stakeholders and (ii) consumers on decision making within the pig and dairy cattle value chains. Regulators, consumers and producers, policy makers, among other stakeholders, will get involved in the design of the new solution, seeking thus a multi-actor approach in most of the stages of the project.

The software platform will be capable to inform the welfare status in a variety of production systems, considering geographical divergences within production systems in Europe. The outcome of the algorithm will feed a user-friendly platform that will be adapted to inform the different targeted audiences. ClearFarm will assist producers in optimizing production process, but also for consumers to have more insight into the background of animal products, providing thus a better understanding of animal welfare.

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-SFS-2019-1

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 383 285,78
Dirección
EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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Región
Este Cataluña Barcelona
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 634 216,41

Participantes (18)