In order to ensure the agroecological transition to more vertuous agri-food systems, to cope with climate change and to reduce French meat consumption, the sector and its players face a number of challenges, including the following: a lower use of intrants (energy, water ...), an improved valorisation and relocalisation of raw material for animal feeds, recycling and the closing of bio-product cycles, the improvement of health and welfare of animals, the creation and sharing of value among the various levels of the sector, the renewing of the breeding profession (attractivity, work conditions), an improved adaptation of products to expectations (nutrional, sensorial ... but also ethics: relative to the origin and methods of breeding and producation elaboration) of the consumers and citizens.

Thus, the porcine industry group actively responds to these challenges by gathering 22 experts from INRAE (for the large part), ANSES, IFIP-Institut du Porc, the Chamber of Agriculture in Brittany or the Agro Rennes-Angers Institute, with the mission to monitor and analyze the activity and context of the porcine industry and its actors, along with research in the field, at INRAE, in France and beyond. Their fields of expertise cover the different fields concerned by breeding, transformation and consumption of pork: genetics, animal sciences of breeding systems, nutrition, environment, ethology, animal health, food sciences, process engineering, economy, sociology...

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