Carnot France Futur Elevage

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Backed by INRAE, France Futur Élevage brings together the expertise of world-class academic agro-veterinary research bodies and the R&D expertise of three leading international agricultural technical institutes in livestock industry services.

Their multidisciplinary expertise allows France Futur Élevage members to conduct R&D projects across a wide range of technological maturity, from fundamental research to development, in 4 distinct areas:

• Improving animal well-being and livestock farming practices
• Improving genetic selection and reproduction strategies
• Improving the prevention, detection and management of livestock diseases
• Understanding the factors driving socio-economic changes in the livestock industry

France Futur Élevage seek progress at the individual level, for regions, and for the industry as a whole.

Examples of projects leaded with industrial partners

• Study of intestinal microbiota influence on the robustness of piglet at weaning, aiming to reduce the use of antibiotics in farms.
• Study of new strategies to reduce the decline of immunity caused by the Marek disease virus in poultry.
• Reduction of environmental impact of monogastric livestock by improving and diversifying nutrients destined for animals and integrating new criteria to select animals.
• Development of methodology of relevant indicators of aniaml herd welfare.
• Study of alternatives to soy meals for dairy cow nutrition.

Markets covered

• Agriculture / livestock
• Agrifood
• Veterinary diagnosis and drugs
• Digital 

Expertise

• Animal physiology
• Farm equipments and livestock buildings
• Precision livestock farming
• Animal nutrition 
• Animal genetics
• Reproduction
• Infectiology
• Host-pathogen interactions
• Toxicology and pharmacology
• Livestock systems
• Modelling
• Epidemiology
• Ethology
• Economics
• Humanities and social sciences
   

Original resources available

• Animal experimentation platforms (confined or not) that can host animals ranging from fish to lactating cows at confinement level 3.
• Insectariums: ticks and disease-transmitting insects
• Collection of pathogenic bacteria from over 2500 strains
• Surgery and imaging applied to experimental models 
• Multiple animal models: mice, arthropods, ruminants, pigs, poultry, fish, rabbits
• Spatio-temporal tracking of pathogenic agents and carriers
• Multiple high-capacity “omic” platforms
• Processing and analysis capacity for massive data volumes 
• Network of experimental farms in collaboration with partners in the field, allowing for experiments in real production conditions
• Alternatives to animal experimentation: systems for in-vitro study, organoids, …
   

Example of collaborative projects conducted with socio-economic partners

• Evaluation of the impact of combining tannin sources on sheep digestive systems while controlling parasites
• Development of a methodology for evaluating animal well-being in the poultry and rabbit sectors
• Search for new sources of protein for feeding broiler chickens
• Evaluation of digestive efficiency in pig breeding
• Evaluation of the environmental footprint of the products of ruminant livestock operations
• Improved human resources management in cattle farming
• Early automated detection of respiratory problems in young cattle