ERBS meets in France to debate beef sector challenges

The European Roundtable for Beef Sustainability (ERBS) has highlighted its dedication to delivering a cohesive response to the challenges at the moment going through the pink meat industries throughout the continent.

The organisation permits Europe’s pink meat sector to talk with one voice on points comparable to local weather change.

The group returned to an in-person occasion after a three-year hiatus as a result of Covid-19 and lately gathered in northern France.

The over-arching theme chosen for the assembly was: ‘Igniting Optimistic Influence Collectively’.

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In sensible phrases, ERBS unites stakeholders throughout Europe’s beef worth chain to ship measurable and optimistic influence and steady enchancment on key sustainability priorities.

The organisation additionally aligns everybody in working in direction of measurable progress to the identical, agreed, targets, whereas recognising the range of manufacturing techniques throughout Europe.

Livestock and Meat Fee (LMC) chief govt, Ian Stevenson, is an ERBS board member. He stated: “The get-together in France targeted on recognising and reflecting the present and future challenges going through the meat sector.

“There was a transparent give attention to how ERBS can help our members in persevering with to drive optimistic progress on key sustainability matters.”

Two-day beef occasion in France

Day one of many occasion began with a subject journey to Conteville, the place ERBS members had the chance of gauging the effectiveness of utilizing CAP’2ER (a multi-criteria calculator to measure greenhouse gasoline emissions and determine mitigation choices) on a dairy, beef and arable farm.

The go to additionally offered for an evaluation of the cattle welfare analysis instrument, Boviwell.

“Each applied sciences are serving to French farmers to evaluate key elements that influence on the sustainability of their farms,” Stevenson stated.

Day two of the assembly offered Richard Brown, a director of worldwide consultancy and analysis agency Gíra, to current to the group.

He highlighted the unprecedented stage of uncertainty and alter now impacting on the worldwide beef sector.

“However, on the upside, he additionally highlighted the rising demand for beef,” Stevenson added.

Thomas Duffy, vice chairman of the European Council of Younger Farmers (CEJA), additionally addressed the ERBS assembly. He introduced the farmer perspective on the challenges going through the meat sector, and the necessity for options to be farmer based mostly.

ERBS attracts its membership from throughout the European area with six aligned platforms now working in France, Germany, Eire, Italy, Poland and UK.

“The assembly offered all ERBS members the chance to agree priorities and future initiatives which have the unanimous help of all our stakeholder organisations,” Stevenson added.

Kepak highlighted the work now underway, bringing collectively science, clients and enterprise in addressing local weather motion in Eire.

Representatives of the Germany-based Tonnies group mentioned the influence of the ‘BEST Beef’ programme in that nation. Particularly they referenced the numerous progress made, the place animal medicines, animal welfare, farming resilience and GHG discount measures are involved.

Interbev – from France – highlighted the work that has been undertaken in driving a pan-European response to the Frequent Agricultural Coverage’s (CAP0 new Inexperienced Deal.