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Recent Publications
Recent Publications
Modelling the production impacts of scaling up agroforestry systems in England and Wales
Agricultural Systems, March 2026
Authors: Tom Staton, Paul Burgess, Anil Graves, Laurence Smith
Environmental and economic impacts of using brewers spent grains for animal feed and anaerobic digestion
Journal of Cleaner Production, January 2026
Authors: Nicholas Davison, Christos Christodoulou, David Humphries, Kirsty Kliem, Sokratis Stergiadis, Laurence Smith
Exploring relationships among different sustainability aspects in innovative livestock systems in Europe
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, December 2025
Authors: Elena Diaz Vicuna , Nina Adams, Laurence Smith, Magdalena Durand, Coen van Wagenberg, Enora Caron, Agnes van den Pol-van Dasselaar, Lukas Baumgart, Soline Schetelat, Mignon Sandor, Adrian Gliga, Sandrine Espagnol, Heidi Mai-Lis Andersen, Robert Borek, Piotr Jurga, Noa van Leuffen, Jasper L.T. Heerkens, Jenny Yngvesson, Annabel Oosterwijk , Jessica Stokes, Claudio Forte and Anna Hessle
Short Communication: True Cost Accounting (TCA) as a transformative approach for livestock agri-food systems
Animal, August 2025
Authors: W. Baltussen, C. Bonnet, F. Bunte, M. van Galen, C.L. Giagnocavo, D.A. Kenny, A. Oosterwijk, L. Smith, J. Snoek, I. Verweij-Novikova, L. Vissers, C.P.A. van Wagenberg
Nutrient use and methane emissions in growing beef fed different protein sources and a pasture-based diet
Journal of Animal Science, January 2025
Authors: Christos Christodoulou, Kirsty E. Kliem, Marc D. Auffret, David J. Humphries, Paul Kirton, Hassan Jalal, John R. Newbold, Nicholas Davison, Laurence G. Smith and Sokratis Stergiadis
In vitro rumen degradation, fermentation, and methane production of four agro-industrial protein-rich co-products, compared with soyabean meal
Animal Feed Science and Technology, January 2025
Authors: Christos Christodoulou, Kirsty E. Kliem, Marc D. Auffret, David J. Humphries, John R. Newbold, Nicholas Davison, Les Crompton, Mewa S. Dhanoa, Laurence G. Smith and Sokratis Stergiadis
Improved life cycle assessment (LCA) methods to account for crop-livestock interactions within agricultural systems
Agricultural Systems, October 2024
Authors: Pietro Goglio, Laurence G. Smith, Sophie Saget, Marilia I.S. Folegatti Matsuura
Leverage points for the uptake of organic food production and consumption in the United Kingdom
Communications Earth & Environment, August 2024
Authors: Tom Staton, Nicholas Davison, Sally Westaway, Lisa Arguile, Nina Adams, Victor Aguilera, Lillie Bellamy, Alysoun Bolger, Richard Gantlett, Steven Jacobs, Niamh Noone, Joanna T. Staley & Laurence G. Smith
Integrating sustainability assessment tools with life cycle analysis for agroecological systems: A UK case study
Agricultural Systems, August 2024
Authors: Sally Westaway, Tomasz Żyłowski, Sam Hardiman, Laurence G. Smith
Harmonizing methods to account for soil nitrous oxide emissions in Life Cycle Assessment of agricultural systems
Agricultural Systems, August 2024
Authors: Pietro Goglio, Simon Moakes, Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Klara Van Mierlo, Nina Adams, Fossey Maxime, Alberto Maresca, Manuel Romero-Huelva, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Laurence G. Smith, Giampiero Grossi, Ward Smith, Camillo De Camillis, Thomas Nemecek, Francesco Tei, Frank Willem Oudshoorn
Assessing the impacts of EU agricultural policies on the sustainability of the livestock sector: a review of the recent literature
Agriculture and Human Values, June 2024
Authors: Nina Adams, Ariane Sans, Karen‑Emilie Trier Kreutzfeldt, Maria Alejandra Arias Escobar, Frank Willem Oudshoorn, Nathalie Bolduc, Pierre‑Marie Aubert, Laurence Graham Smith
Defining common criteria for harmonizing life cycle assessments of livestock systems
Cleaner Production Letters, June 2023
Authors: Pietro Goglio, Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Klara Van Mierlo, Nina Röhrig, Maxime Fossey, Alberto Maresca, Fatemeh Hashemi, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Jenny Yngvesson, Gilles Nassy, Roline Broekema, Simon Moakes, Catherine Pfeifer, Robert Borek, David Yanez-Ruiz, Monica Quevedo Cascante, Alina Syp, Tomasz Zylowsky, Manuel Romero-Huelva, Laurence G. Smith
Recent Posters
Recent Posters
Absolute sustainability poster.pdfEconomic, greenhouse gas and broader sustainability trade-offs in innovative European livestock systems
The First International Conference on Absolute Sustainability, Denmark, 30 September - 2 October 2025
Authors: Nick Davison et al.
Poster_EAAP-2025_dengsheng-sun.pdfConsequential LCA in livestock
European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) Annual Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria, 25-29 August 2025
Authors: Dengsheng Sun, Maria Vilain Rørvang, Laurence Smith
Poster_ISAE-2025_dengsheng_sun.pdfAnimal welfare in sustainable livestock systems
International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) Annual Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands, 4-8 August 2025
Authors: Dengsheng Sun, Maria Vilain Rørvang, Laurence Smith
GFS poster v2.pdfLifecycle analysis of agroforestry systems: Opportunities and challenges
Global Food Security Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 9-12 April 2024
Authors: Tom Staton, Laurence G. Smith
Deliverables
Deliverables
Developed methods for True Cost Accounting, Social LCA, and Consequential LCA of livestock systems
STEP-UP project
SAFS contributors: Laurence Smith, Dengsheng Sun
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