5-7th March 2025: Phosphorus use and recycling in intensive livestock

This event will focus on making livestock production, animal feed, and manure and digestate management more circular. The workshop will help create a UNEP report on sustainable nutrient use in livestock farming.
How can we balance efficient nutrient management in intensive livestock farming with social benefits (such as lower prices and regional agri-food specialisation) while tackling nutrient imbalances in certain areas?

•    Location: Saint Malo, Brittany (with some sessions online)
•    Topics Covered: Sustainable livestock nutrient management; How nutrients move in livestock production; The impact of different diets on nutrient use; Animal feed, farming methods, and nutrient footprints; Life cycle analysis (LCA) of livestock production; Recycling and reusing manure nutrients
•    Participants: Experts from UNEP (United Nations), the European Commission (DG AGRI, DG RTD), livestock farmers, meat producers, the agri-food industry, environmental organisations, and researchers.
•    Organisers: UNEP uPcycle, Roullier (fertilisers, animal nutrition, food industry), Cooperl (Brittany pig farmers and pork industry solutions), ESPP, BETA Technological Center, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH).

In-person participants have the opportunity of site visits:
•    Roullier’s Global Research Centre (fertilisers and agriculture)
•    Minerallium, a unique experience exploring minerals from Earth’s origins to plants, animals and humans
•    Cooperl’s waste to resource vision and processes, with the Bulle Environment immersive showroom
•    Couiclang pig farm, state-of-the-art pork production sustainability

On-site participation limited to 60 persons to enable active discussion, white paper drafting, site visits. Wed. 5 – Fri. 7 March 2024, Saint Malo, France (Brittany coast, 1 hour from Rennes high-speed train station and airport) and partly online. Online access will include plenary presentations. To participate in discussions and white paper, we recommend in-person attendance. To request to participate in Saint Malo, pre-register now: https://phosphorusplatform.eu/LivestockBrittany