Sustainable Farming

Ensuring sustainable and responsible production of healthy food from healthy animals

The project brings together global expertise to research ‘future farming’ systems, sustainable and responsible production of healthy food from healthy animals, supporting a vision where people in all regions can enjoy the benefits of appropriately moderate consumption of high quality animal products with net health benefit.

These integrated farming systems consider nutrient cycling so that animal waste products are used to the maximum potential, minimising both greenhouse gas emission and use of artificial fertilisers.

The research considers not only livestock rearing per se, but also mixed crop-livestock systems in which human inedible crop residues such as cereal crop straws or stovers, sugar cane, grain sorghum, soybean and vegetables may be fed to livestock, themselves producing manure for fertilizing crops.