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Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of cattle production systems

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Value: £139,847Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Wed 1 Sep 2021, 14:00 BSTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Wed 1 Sep 2021, 14:00 BST, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 18 Oct 2021
Region: Any region

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The main project aims to compare aspects of the environmental performance of different cattle production systems, ranging from conventional part housed and large-scale, fully housed dairy and beef to all-forage based production and including sub-set of organic production. The core method of analysis will apply systems-based environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), using an enhanced version of the Defra-funded Cranfield model.

The main environmental impacts will include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water quality (e.g. eutrophication potential) and air quality (e.g. acidification potential, NOx), non-renewable resource consumption, stress weighted blue water consumption and land use. Other areas, such as biodiversity, other non-provisioning ecosystem services and social aspects are out of scope, but are being addressed in a separate RC-funded, CEH-led project (Sustainable economic and ecological grazing systems - learning from innovative practitioners, SEEGLSIP).

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73000000 73100000 90000000 90700000 90710000
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18 Oct 2021
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Contract notice published 18 October 2021.
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