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Educational concept - Life cycle assessment of agricultural operations | Elisabeth Finotti #76

(c) HBLFA Raumberg‑Gumpenstein
Educational concept - Life cycle assessment of agricultural operations | Elisabeth Finotti #76

"FarmLife" farm management tool for life cycle assessment of agricultural operations

The research group "Eco-efficiency of agricultural holdings" at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, in cooperation with the Agroscope research institute (Switzerland), has developed a comprehensive farm management tool called FarmLife for Austrian agriculture. This tool assesses environmentally relevant processes on farms and offers not only an ecological but also an economic analysis of farm management areas, along with recommendations for the farms based on these analyses.

The aspects examined include, among many others..

  • the space, building and machinery requirements,
  • the self-sufficiency of businesses,
  • Production efficiency in milk production,
  • the energy and CO2balance,
  • ecotoxicity,
  • nitrogen eutrophication or
  • the number of people served by the company

FarmLife has been successfully used in agricultural practice for years and shows, for example, that Austrian dairy farms have comparatively low environmental impacts in a European context.

Furthermore, a comprehensive educational concept based on this farm management tool developed for use in agricultural schools, specifically for the younger generation. Regular professional development courses for teachers, supervised by Elisabeth Finotti, MA,research associate in the Department of Economics and Resource Management and member of the Eco-Efficiency Research Group at HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, promote the integration of this knowledge into the curriculum.

The FarmLife learning platform and further information can be found at www.farmlife.at and at https://raumberg-gumpenstein.at/farmlife.

In today's podcast episode, Dr. Andreas Steinwidder andElisabeth Finotti present this farm management tool, along with the purpose and functionality of the educational concept built upon it. Listen in and get an idea of ​​how the FarmLife.at farm management tool works and what benefits it can offer you.

 

 

In this podcast episode, Dr. Andreas Steinwidder withElisabeth Finotti about the FarmLife business management tool and its associated educational concept – take a look!

 

 

 

 

Team

Steinwidder Andreas, Priv. Doz. Dr.

Priv. Doz. Dr. Andreas Steinwidder

Leitung Forschung & Innovation
Finotti Elisabeth, Mag.a

Mag.a Elisabeth Finotti

Speaker, Economics and Resource Management

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