Publications by authors named "J Bacenetti"
The increasing growth of the aquaculture sector has raised significant concerns regarding its environmental footprint, including nutrient discharge, substantial feed consumption, and high energy requirements. In response, innovative approaches such as aquaponics and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) are being developed as potentially more sustainable alternatives. This study aims to evaluate the environmental performance of an innovative Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaponics system (IMTAcs) using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsect-based protein production has gained traction in recent years. This has led to the increasing production of frass, the residual substrate from insect farming. As a relatively new substrate with characteristics that are not widely known, its energetic potential still needs to be investigated.
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- The study evaluates the environmental footprint of pig production in Spain and Italy, focusing on ammonia and particulate matter emissions from livestock housing using Life Cycle Assessment.
- It compares a baseline scenario to two air treatment technologies (wet scrubber and dry scrubber) to assess their effectiveness in reducing emissions and identifies key environmental trade-offs involving energy and resource usage.
- Findings suggest that both scrubbers can significantly reduce harmful emissions, particularly in Italian farms, but their implementation also brings additional environmental impacts that need to be considered for comprehensive sustainability.
There is a growing demand for technologies able to decrease the environmental impact of agricultural activities without penalizing quali-quantitative characteristics of productions. In the case of viticulture, one of the key problems is represented by the spray drift during fungicide treatments. The diffusion in operational farming contexts of technologies based on variable-rate and recycling tunnel sprayers is often limited by their cost and, for the latter, by their size and lower maneuverability, representing clear disadvantages especially in case of small farms or in hilly and mountain areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFeeding is one of the most important factors influencing production efficiency and the environmental impact of livestock production. This study evaluates the possibility of reducing the impact of beef cattle production by optimizing the fertilization management of home-grown forage on the same farms. To this end, two scenarios were compared on two beef cattle farms in northern Italy, a baseline scenario (BS) and a scenario with optimized management (OMS) in terms of nitrogen fertilizer use.
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