Lagos – The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) says it will partner with international organisations to reduce the impact of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission on the environment.
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range.
This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect and the primary greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.
In a news bulletin made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday, the IFIF said that greenhouse gas impact negatively on livestock globally.
The IFIF, in the bulletin, said it was working with its members from around the world, as well as international organisations, agri-food chain partners and other key stakeholders on the gas reduction emission project.
The organisation said it would continue to champion science-based decisions, the need for continued innovation and better technologies, as well as regulatory convergence and free and fair trade as a basis for sustainable production in the future.
IFIF said it had, together with the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA) and a consortium of international companies and associations launched the Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability Project (SFIS).
It said that the project measured and established the positive role of specialty feed ingredients (SFIs) on the environmental impact of livestock production.
The organisation said that given the diversity of livestock production systems around the world, it was important to find solutions that would work locally, while ensuring food safety and quality from farm to fork.
“The need to improve the environmental performance of the livestock sector will continue as the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that demand for livestock products will intensify soon.
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“The livestock raising and consumption of animal products made a crucial contribution to the economic and nutritional wellbeing of people across the globe particularly in developing countries.
“Through innovation and efficiency, animal feed has proven to be an essential part of the solution to make the livestock production chain more sustainable and reduce the gas emissions,’’ the IFIF said.
The organisation also said that as livestock production system begins to diversify across the globe, there was need to ensure food security, adopting local methods on the quality of food.
“We will also support sustainability efforts at international level, which will use the FAO supported LEAP methodology to develop a global standard,’’ it said. (NAN)