Description du projet
Une plateforme pour contrôler le bien‑être animal dans l’élevage
Les vaches laitières et les porcs représentent les deux systèmes de production animale à la part la plus élevée en Europe. Même si la nécessité du bien‑être animal est largement acceptée comme étant indispensable à un élevage durable, les instruments existants pour évaluer le bien‑être animal sont trop lents et présentent des coûts élevés. La technologie d’élevage de précision (EP) propose un meilleur contrôle et améliore les processus d’élevage. Le projet ClearFarm, financé par l’UE, entend utiliser la technologie d’EP avec des données basées sur les animaux pour accroître le bien‑être animal dans l’ensemble de la chaîne de production. La plateforme informera les parties prenantes de la production et les consommateurs sur le statut du bien-être animal dans les systèmes de production, en tenant compte des différences géographiques en Europe.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Not validated
Not validated
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
Mots‑clés
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Espagne