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Environmental performances of Sardinian dairy sheep production systems at different input levels (Articolo in rivista)
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- 2015-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.09.020 (literal)
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Enrico Vagnoni, Antonello Franca, Leo Breedveld, Claudio Porqueddu, Roberto Ferrara, Pierpaolo Duce (2015)
Environmental performances of Sardinian dairy sheep production systems at different input levels
in Science of the total environment; ELSEVIER SCIENCE B.V., AMSTERDAM (Paesi Bassi)
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- Enrico Vagnoni, Antonello Franca, Leo Breedveld, Claudio Porqueddu, Roberto Ferrara, Pierpaolo Duce (literal)
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- CNR - Istituto di Biometeorologia, CNR - Istituto per il sistema produzione animale in ambiente Mediterraneo, 2B s.r.l., Università di Sassari - Dipartimento Scienze della Natura e del Territorio (literal)
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- Environmental performances of Sardinian dairy sheep production systems at different input levels (literal)
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- Although sheep milk production is a significant sector for the EuropeanMediterranean countries, it shows serious
competitiveness gaps. Minimizing the ecological impacts of dairy sheep farming systems could represent a key
factor for farmers to bridging the gaps in competitiveness of such systems and also obtaining public incentives.
However, scarce is the knowledge about the environmental performance of Mediterranean dairy sheep farms.
The main objectives of this paper were (i) to compare the environmental impacts of sheep milk production
fromthree dairy farms in Sardinia (Italy), characterized by different input levels, and (ii) to identify the hotspots
for improving the environmental performances of each farm, by using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.
The LCA was conducted using two different assessment methods: Carbon Footprint-IPCC and ReCiPe endpoint.
The analysis, conducted \"from cradle to gate\", was based on the functional unit 1 kg of Fat and Protein
Corrected Milk (FPCM). The observed trends of the environmental performances of the studied farming systems
were similar for both evaluation methods. The GHG emissions revealed a little range of variation (from 2.0 to
2.3 kg CO2-eq per kg of FPCM) with differences between farming systems being not significant. The ReCiPe
end-point analysis showed a larger range of values and environmental performances of the low-input farm
were significantly different compared to the medium- and high-input farms. In general, enteric methane emissions,
field operations, electricity and production of agricultural machineries were the most relevant processes
in determining the overall environmental performances of farms.
Future research will be dedicated to (i) explore and better define the environmental implications of the land use
impact category in the Mediterranean sheep farming systems, and (ii) contribute to revising and improving the
existing LCA dataset for Mediterranean farming systems. (literal)
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