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Life Beef Carbon

The LIFE BEEF CARBON initiative aims to better measure GHG emissions and carbon storage, identify, demonstrate and disseminate innovative good practices on farm to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the beef carbon footprint by 15% from now to 2025. The project involves 8 partner organizations and 4 partner countries, representative of the EU meat production coming from the dairy and suckler beef herds (13 livestock’s areas) and accounting for 32% of the EU cattle herd. The four countries, France, Ireland, Italy and Spain represent a large diversity of production systems. The project intends to promote innovative livestock farming systems and associated practices to ensure the technical, economic, environmental and social sustainability of beef farms.To reach this overall objective, project partners aim to raise awareness among beef production actors and obtain the commitment of technicians, advisers and farmers to improve environmental performance.

Activity period 2015–present
Last CoAct update 2023
Web URL http://www.interbev.fr/life-beef-carbon/?lang=en
Output effectiveness
0.36
Accountability Index
0.17
Inclusiveness Index
0.36
Num. actors 35
Functions Knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Technical implementation, Institutional capacity building, Standards and norms, Participatory management, Training, Policy planning
SDGs 2 8 9 11 12 13 15 17
Themes land use, industry
Policy focus Mainly mitigation
Sectors Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Implementation countries France, Ireland, Italy, Spain
Target Target type
Reduce beef carbon footprint by 15% by 2025 in France, Ireland, Italy and Spain Emission reduction target
Engage 16 Stakeholders who have committed to the goals by 2018 Organisations engaged target
Involve 150 Training advisers (national and regional) and 170 innovative farmers, to build a common knowledge/base Other target
Create a LIFE BEEF CARBON demonstrative farm observatory composed of 2,000 beef farms, taking part in the 1st beef carbon assessment actions operated at such a large scale, covering several production contexts Other target
Construct a network of 172 innovative farms to test/apply/promote innovative techniques to reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon storage Other target