This Good Practice (GP) aims to improve carbon neutrality and reduce the environmental footprint of broiler farming. Carbon neutrality is the balance between emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere.

The surveyed farm has been feeding spent litter for 9 years to an anaerobic digester for cogeneration of electricity, thus allowing the spent litter to be valorized and reducing methane emissions in its management, storage, and agronomic use.

Transferring spent litter to a biogas plant avoids outdoor storage until agronomic use, reducing odor, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and also the carbon footprint in term of CO₂eq per kg of meat produced.

Awareness of environmental impacts of broiler farming and the adoption of sustainable farming practices are key drivers to mitigating the negative impact of broiler farms on the environment.