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ForFarmers’ Corporate Affairs Director Nick Major has recently been elected as the new Chair of The Global Feed LCA Institute.
carbon footprint of the whole production chain and then optimise for the best results.
Is there interest from the feed industry to reduce the car- bon footprint of feed? I see increasing interest from the feed industry. We all have a re- sponsibility to look at the environmental impact of what we do. In the feed industry, while we can do a lot by reducing our own emissions in manufacturing and transport, the real impact is in the feed materials, often referred to as Scope 3 emissions. There is such a focus on the environmental impact of livestock production that I see no choice but for the feed industry to play its part. In our own operations, in the feed materials we use and in the advice we provide to livestock producers.
What is needed to actually start reducing the emissions of feed production? There are two key requirements. An agreed methodology – how do you calculate the emissions of 1 tonne of feed delivered to the farm? In Europe, this is set out in a PEFCR (Product Environ- mental Category Rules). This explains what data you need, such as the formulation and the energy quantity and type used for manufacturing and transport. Then of course there is the GFLI data on the emissions from feed materials (to which you need to add transport of the feed material to the feed mill). These can then be used to calculate the emissions per tonne. There are
other dimensions to sustainability such as responsible sourcing of feed materials, the use of feed materials which are not con- sumed by humans and the efficiency with which the feed is used on farm.
ForFarmers has become a member of GLFI. In what way are they going to contribute to reducing emissions from feed? ForFarmers has been involved with GFLI right from the start, first as a member for the original consortium which worked to set it up and now as one of the first companies to join as a member now that GFLI has been set up as a nonprofit legal entity. For- Farmers uses GFLI to calculate the carbon footprint of all of the feeds it produces in the five countries in which they operate and is increasingly providing this information to its farmer customers. In addition, ForFarmers has set an number of what I think are quite ambitious objectives for 2030, including reducing the car- bon footprint of its own operations (per tonne of feed) by 75% compared to 2015 and cutting CO₂ emissions from feed materials by 30%.
What will be the main activities of GLFI in the years ahead? To recruit more members to help shape GFLI for the future, to at- tract new data from providers and to position GFLI as the stand- ard reference for anyone who needs environmental data related to feed materials as a contribution to a net-zero carbon feed and food industry.
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