Taking the steps toward sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey

M. Jordana Rivero; Alex Evans; Alexandre Berndt; Andrew Cartmill; Andrew Dowsey; Anne Farruggia; Catyherine Mignolet; Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo; Dave Chadwick; Davy McCracken; Dennis Busch; Fabiano Pereyra; Graeme B. Martin; Gregg R. Sanford; Helen Sheridan; Iain Wright; Laurent Brunet; Mark Eisler; Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos; Pablo Rovira; Paul Harris; Paul Murphy; Prysor Williams; Randall D. Jackson; Rui Machado; P.T. Suraj; Thomas Puech; Tommy Boland; Walter Ayala; Michael R.F. Lee

doi:10.1093/af/vfab048

Taking the steps toward sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey

M. Jordana Rivero
, Alex Evans
, Alexandre Berndt
, Andrew Cartmill
, Andrew Dowsey
, Anne Farruggia
, Catyherine Mignolet
, Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo
, Dave Chadwick
, Davy McCracken
, Dennis Busch
, Fabiano Pereyra
, Graeme B. Martin
, Gregg R. Sanford
, Helen Sheridan
, Iain Wright
, Laurent Brunet
, Mark Eisler
, Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos
, Pablo Rovira

Paul Harris, Paul Murphy, Prysor Williams, Randall D. Jackson, Rui Machado, P.T. Suraj, Thomas Puech, Tommy Boland, Walter Ayala, Michael R.F. Lee

Ysgol Gwyddorau Amgylcheddol a Naturiol

Rothamsted Research Centre
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA
University of Wisconsin–Platteville
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi
Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Livestock Research Station
Harper Adams University, Newport
University College Dublin
Embrapa Southeast Livestock
Hill and Mountain Research Centre
University of Western Australia
University of Bristol
Bio-Protection Research Centre, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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The Global Farm Platform was conceived and established to explore multidisciplinary strategies for optimising the sustainability of ruminant livestock systems around the world.

International sustainability issues are common, but the solutions are often region-specific; therefore, our farms, situated across all major agroclimatic zones, are a unique resource worldwide.

Each farm is following ‘steps to sustainable livestock’ to improve their production system(s), thereby developing robust metrics to progress economic, environmental and social viability.

The consortium works collaboratively to improve the sustainability of ruminants, which we argue are a vital component of global food systems, delivering both human and planetary health.

Iaith wreiddiol	Saesneg
Tudalennau (o-i)	52-58
Nifer y tudalennau	7
Cyfnodolyn	Animal Frontiers
Cyfrol	11
Rhif cyhoeddi	5
Dyddiad ar-lein cynnar	20 Hyd 2021
Dynodwyr Gwrthrych Digidol (DOIs)	https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab048
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Rivero, M. J., Evans, A., Berndt, A., Cartmill, A., Dowsey, A., Farruggia, A., Mignolet, C., Enriquez-Hidalgo, D., Chadwick, D., McCracken, D., Busch, D., Pereyra, F., Martin, G. B., Sanford, G. R., Sheridan, H., Wright, I., Brunet, L., Eisler, M., Lopez-Villalobos, N., ... Lee, M. R. F. (2021). Taking the steps toward sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey. Animal Frontiers, 11(5), 52-58. https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab048

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