LowInputBreeds: Key facts & figures

Development of integrated livestock breeding and management strategies to improve animal health, product quality and performance in European organic and ‘low input’ milk, meat and egg production - LowInputBreeds

• 5-year EU Collaborative Project, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities
• Contract No. 222623
• 94 person-years of research
• Over 60 scientists
• 21 leading research and industrial organisations
• 15 countries
• 4 livestock species: cattle (dairy and beef), sheep (dairy and meat), pigs, poultry
• Running from 2009-2014
• Project coordination: Newcastle University and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
• www.lowinputbreeds.org

Second LowInputBreeds Symposium

Feeding and management strategies to improve livestock productivity, welfare and product quality under climate change

= 14th International Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Network on Sheep and Goats Sub-Network on Nutrition and 2nd Symposium of the LowInputBreeds project

• Date: May 15 to 18, 2012
• Venue: Tunis City, Tunisia
• Organisation: National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia (INRAT) and the Pasture and Livestock Agency (OEP-Tunisia) &  Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (CIHEAM-IAMZ)
• Key documents
  • First announcement (195 KB)
  • Registration form (160 KB)
• Website www.iamz.ciheam.org/tunisia2012  and  www.lowinputbreeds.org/symposium-2012.html