Project coordination
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: Hammamet, 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
Second announcement (209 KB)- Programme of May 18th, with the presentations about the progress of the LowInputBreeds project (155 KB)
- Website www.iamz.ciheam.org/tunisia2012 and www.lowinputbreeds.org/symposium-2012.html
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Feeding and management strategies to improve livestock productivity, welfare and product quality under climate change
= 2nd Symposium of the LowInputBreeds project and 14th International Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Network on Sheep and Goats – Sub-Network on Nutrition
- Date: May 15 to 18, 2012
- Venue: Hammamet, 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
- Websites: www.iamz.ciheam.org/tunisia2012 and www.lowinputbreeds.org/symposium-2012.html
Programme
May 15&16, 2012
- Session 1: Production and overall nutrition efficiency
- Session 2: Local feeding resources based systems
- Session 3: Animal welfare / Product quality
- Session 4: Options for mitigating/coping with climate change
- For detailed programme, including the papers of the LowInpoutBreeds project see second conference announcement of the 14th International Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Network on Sheep and Goats Sub-Network on Nutrition/Second LowInputBreeds Symposium
May 17, 2012
- Excursion: The field trip will be to the region of Zaghouan (about 60 km from Hammamet). Three farms will be visited (different production systems, 3 breeds of sheep and cattle), lunch at “Dar Zaghoua and visit of “Temple des eaux” (famous roman ruins).
May 18, 2012 (8.30 am -1 pm): Presentations of the subprojects of the LowInputBreeds project and LowInputBreeds general assembly.
- 8.30 to 12 am Reports from the four LowInputBreeds subprojects (open to all conference participants): Programme (155 KB)
- 12 am to 1 pm: LowInputBreeds General Assembly