Developing social science methods for evaluating sustainability in Norwegian feed system for Norwegian livestock and aquaculture (SocialFeed)

The project SocialFeed starts from the premise that existing standards have a too narrow take on social sustainability. This shortcoming may neglect the importance of the social part of sustainability for feed production whether Norwegian or imported. To explore this, three main cases i.e. cattle, chicken and salmon and their current feed ingredients along with the most promising novel feed ingredients of the future will be included. Methods like Social Life Cycle Assessment, Power mapping and Product chain organization will be applied to assess the sustainability performance of the feed system in Norway, that includes both local production and significantly large import. An improved set of social indicators will be developed to capture both the positive and negative social impacts.  Furthermore, an analysis of the institutional policy framework surrounding domestic Norwegian feed production and imports will be conducted to explore policy options that result in more sustainable feed solutions.