Thematic Areas

Socioeconomic Resilience

Improving the economic sustainability of beef farmers in Europe through investigating opportunities to improve incomes and lifestyle through improved management, and looking at issues such as labour saving and thus work-life balance, farmer health and safety and complementary income streams.

Animal Health & Welfare

Improving animal health and welfare amongst cattle in different beef production systems in Europe by identifying the main animal health and welfare concerns of farmers through bottom-up approaches, including future issues through analysing European and national regulations or recommendations.

Production Efficiency & Meat Quality

Improving the production efficiency at the farm level in the European context while considering meat quality by identifying the main production efficiency and meat quality concerns of farmers through bottom-up approaches, including future issues through analysing European and national regulations or recommendations.

Environmental Sustainability

Improving  the environmental sustainability of the European beef cattle industry at the farm level, to reduce the carbon footprint of meat production (CO2 eq/per kg meat production), to reduce volatile emissions (both greenhouse gasses and ammonia emissions) coming from the beef cattle industry and to reduce nutrient excretions (especially nitrogen and phosphorus P).

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 rural
renaissance programme   |   Project No: 862590 under call H2020-RUR-2019-15