Pigs farming techniques: environmental issues

Improving environmental outcomes


Demand from society has made environmental certification a framework for pig farming, aiming to institute an objective review of the environmental impacts on the water, air and soil in line with a progress-focused approach.

- Reducing environmental impacts: water, soil, air,
- Taking new factors into account: energy self-sufficiency, greenhouse gas emissions,...

Ifip develops tools for assessing and improving the environmental balance of swine farms, by:


  • Reducing pollutant flows,
  • optimising effluent management,
  • Incorporating pig building into the local landscape,
  • Saving or even producing energy,
  • Re-using various industrial by-products
  • and more...