Project description
Revolutionary solutions for sustainable livestock production
Food security is a critical and growing concern for many of the 8 billion people on the planet. Existing agri-food strategies to increase livestock production – namely genetic selection, growth hormones, antibiotics, and other resource-intensive activities – represent neither sustainable nor long-term solutions to the problem. Therefore livestock production efficiencies have plateaued. Fortunately, new strategies driven by digital and life science advances are available. The Aviwell project, funded by the European Innovation Council, will create a more environmentally friendly and sustainable approach for increasing livestock production to address food security and help eradicate world hunger. Its solution is based on direct-fed microbial products as well as an AI-based platform for the identification of powerful multi-strain bacterial consortia networks.
Objective
In 2021, the worldwide population was approximately 8B, and it is expected to grow at >1% annually. Over the past 70 years, the agriculture industry has made significant efforts to increase livestock production and improve food security, but the results are neither sustainable nor sufficient for current food needs.
Aviwell has developed innovative Direct Fed Microbials (DFM) with the ability to control livestock body weight and energy metabolism, targeting specific phenotypes with greater efficiency and efficacy. These DFMs are diverse, native, natural and are only fed as a single dose in the early life of the animal. Also, Aviwell has created a new-concept hybrid AI-based Discovery Platform that quickly and efficiently identifies powerful multi-strain bacterial consortia networks; constantly improving and extending our DFM product portfolio. Aviwell needs the EIC funds for the completion and the optimization of both the platform and DFM products, and its market-approval and entry.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
EIC-ACC - EIC-ACCCoordinator
31400 Toulouse
France
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.