OneWelPig project event sets out roadmap for higher pig welfare

The new cross-industry roadmap to improve welfare for Irish pig farming aims to incorporate pasture-based and agroforestry production systems

(Left to right) Dr Stephanie Buijs, AFBI lead project partner, Dr Keelin O’Driscoll Project co-ordinator at Teagasc, Dr Laura Boyle, project principal investigator at Teagasc, Professor Ilias Kyriazakis Queens University Belfast lead project partner and Professor Siobhan Mullan UCD lead project partner and chair of the roadmap for higher welfare Irish pig farming.

A new cross-industry roadmap for ‘Higher Welfare Irish Pig Farming’ has been launched.

The OneWelPig project event, which aimed to advance sustainable and high-welfare pig production systems across the island of Ireland, held in April, launched the roadmap.