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The ECOALIM database provides life cycle inventories and environmental impacts of raw materials used for animal feed in France Head: Aurélie Wilfart

It is based on the life cycle assessment methodology and provides the impact categories climate change, eutrophication, acidification, non-renewable energy consumption, phosphorus consumption and land use at different perimeters: field gate, storage-organization gate, port gate (foreign raw materials only) and factory gate. Technical data from 2008-2012 were used. At the time of its creation, the database contained more than 150 values, including 58 average raw materials, 27 raw material sub-products and 10 foreign raw materials. It is regularly updated and enriched with new raw materials.

The ECOALIM database exists in two formats: in Microsoft Excel, for insertion into feed-formulation matrices to calculate impacts of a feed or to optimize the impacts through eco-formulation, and in SimaPro ®, for use by life-cycle assessment specialists. ECOALIM is integrated into the national database Agribalyse ® as its animal-nutrition component. ECOALIM is also the database of French raw materials used in the Label “Bas Carbone” methods for pigs and ruminants.

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Publications

• Wilfart A, Espagnol S, Dauguet S, Tailleur A, Gac A & Garcia-Launay F (2016) ECOALIM: A Dataset of Environmental Impacts of Feed Ingredients Used in French Animal Production. PLOS ONE 11, e0167343
• Aurélie Wilfart, Aurélie Tailleur, Sylvie Dauguet (coordinatrices), 2017. Guide méthodologique pour la conception des ICV intrants de l’élevage de la base de données ECOALIM. Ademe
• Wilfart, A.; Dusart, L.; Meda, B.; Gac, A.; Espagnol, S.; Morin, L.; Dronne, Y.; Garcia-Launay, F. 2018. Reducing feed environmental impacts for livestock - Réduire les impacts environnementaux des aliments pour les animaux d’élevage. Inra Productions Animales. 31 (3), 289-306 10.20870/productions-animales.2018.31.2.2285
• Garcia-Launay, F., Dusart, L., Espagnol, S., Laisse-Redoux, S., Gaudre, D., Meda, B., Wilfart, A. 2018. Multiobjective formulation is an effective method to reduce environmental impacts of livestock feeds.British Journal of Nutrition, 120(11): 1298-1309.
• Meda, B.; Garcia-Launay, F.; Dusart, L.; Ponchant, P.; Espagnol, S.; Wilfart, A. 2021. Reducing environmental impacts of feed using multiobjective formulation: What benefits at the farm gate for pig and broiler production? Animal, 15 (1) DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2020.100024

Technical publications

• Espagnol Sandrine, Aurélie Wilfart, 2016. Des données pour produire des aliments du bétail écologiques. TechPorc
• L. Dusart, F. Garcia-Launay, A. Wilfart, B. Méda, I. Bouvarel, S. Espagnol, 2016. Formuler l’aliment autrement. Tema n°38.