A complete map of the material flows of the French pork sector for 2021, built from 2022 to 2025 by IFIP (the French pork institute) with the support of TerriFlux. From slaughter to final consumption — cutting, processing, distribution, co-products, offal, fats and foreign trade included — the application traces what becomes of the roughly 2.9 million tonnes of live pigs slaughtered in 2021.
These diagrams are work in progress, published to show the approach and to gather feedback. The study is still under way: the model keeps evolving and the values shown here are not final. They are the sole responsibility of their authors and have not been endorsed by FranceAgriMer or by the INAPORC interbranch organisation.
It is this study that made it possible to build the talk and the paper presented at the 2025 Journées de la Recherche Porcine (Diot & Alapetite, 2025). To date these are the only published results of the work; they correspond to the "Pork flows — JRP version" diagram.
This work follows on from the Panorama de la consommation et de la distribution des produits du porc, published by FranceAgriMer in 2021 from an IFIP study covering 2018: it takes up the same subject for 2021, at a finer level of detail.
The study applies the AF Filières method: framing data, definition of the sector's structure and of an unambiguous nomenclature (categories built to avoid double counting), inventory and qualification of statistical sources (Insee, consumer panels, customs, Agreste, Uniporc…), enrichment through surveys of actors at every link of the chain, then data reconciliation by optimisation under material-balance constraints and representation as Sankey diagrams.
Study carried out by IFIP with TerriFlux, under a FranceAgriMer contract co-funded by the INAPORC interbranch organisation.
