Organic pig farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challenges

Organic pig farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challengesOrganic pig production strives to provide housing and management conditions that guarantee a high level of animal health and welfare, sustainability, a closed soilplantanimal cycle and produce high quality products. This chapter discusses how housing of organic pigs affects welfare and the environment, and outlines how organic production systems are desperately in need of alternatives to feedstuffs that are in direct competition with human nutrition.

The chapter concludes with a summary and future perspectives for research

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