The first LowInputBreeds Symposium was organised by the LowInputBreeds project partners Wageningen UR Livestock Research and the Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment of the University (CeBRA) of Copenhagen in cooperation with ECO AB, the European Consortium for Organic Animal Breeding.

The aim of the symposium was to discuss the plans and progress in LowInputBreeds in an early stage of the EU-project with stakeholders. For the symposium farmers and policy workers from governmental and non-governmental organisations were invited. Special attention was paid to possible ethical issues in organic and free range systems of livestock production as considered by the LowInputBreeds project. CeBRA had arranged for facilitators and a structure to discuss in species specific workshops these ethical issues.

The proceedings of the symposium can now be downloaded from the project website. They contain abstracts of the plenary and species specific presentations, links to the presentations and reports on the workshops per species.

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Contact

Dr. Ferry Leentra, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

Citation

Leenstra, Ferry, Karsten Klint Jensen, Gillian Butler, Brian Baker, Helga Willer and Veronika Maurer (2012): Ethical Consideration in Livestock Breeding. Proceedings of the first LowInputBreeds Symposium held in in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 15-16 March 2011. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland

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Ethical Consideration in Livestock Breeding. Proceedings of the  First LowInputBreeds Symposium held in in  Wageningen, The Netherlands, 15-16 March 2011 (433 KB)

 

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