Working Groups [Networks]
FAO/CIHEAM Inter-Regional Cooperative Research and Development Network on Pastures and Fodder Crops (CO-ORDINATION Jakob Troxler, Station de recherches en production végétale, Changins 1260 Nyon, Switzerland), under which a number of Sub-regional networks are active:

WORKING GROUPS Liaison centres Liaison officers
M0UNTAIN PASTURES Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Prairies
2, Place Croix-du-Sud
B - 148 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium		 Alain PEETERS

Projects

1. Biodiversity and agricultural value of mountain grassland: a) Study of the individual vegetation groups; b) Study of the productivity and quality of these vegetation groups (Team leader = A. Peeters, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Prairies, Place Croix-du-Sud, Bte 5, 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium).

2. Quality of the mountain grassland forages (Team leader = J. Scehovic, Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Station, Changins, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland).

3. Relations between herd or flock behaviour, pasture management and evolution of the vegetation (Team leader = J. Troxler, Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Station, Changins, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland) 

WORKING GROUPS Liaison centres Liaison officers
LOWLAND GRASSLANDS  The West of Scotland College
Grassland and Ruminant Science
Department
Auchincruive, Ayr KA6 5HW
United Kingdom		 George FISHER

Projects

4. Persistence and production of white clover (Team leader = Bodil Frankow-Lindberg, Department of Crop Production Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden).

5. Production and utilisation in long-term on permanent pastures for sustainable lowland grasslands (Team leader = G. Fisher, The Scottish Agricultural College, Grassland and Ruminant Science Department, Auchincruive, Ayr, KA6 5 HW, United Kingdom).

WORKING GROUPS Liaison centres Liaison officers
MEDITERRANEAN
PASTURES		 INRA, Unite d'Ecodeveloppement
Site Agroparc
F - 84914 Avignon Cedex 9		 Michel ETIENNE

Projects

6. Herbaceous Mediterranean species (Team leader = I. Delgado Enguita, Servicio de Investigación Agraria (D.G.A), Apartado 727, E - 50080 Zaragoza, Spain)

7. Forage shrubs and trees (Team leader = C. Tsiouvaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Range Science, 216, GR - 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece).

8. Forage and grazing systems (Team leader= A. Pardini, Dipartimento di Agronomia e Produzioni Erbacee, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine 18, I - 50144 Firenze).

9. Genetics resources and improvement of Mediterranean lucernes (Team leader = H. Marrakchi, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, 15, Rue Salem Bouhajeb, El Menzah 5, 1004 Tunis, Tunisia).

10. Sustainable development of Mediterranean arid and semi-arid areas (Team leader = E. Correal, Centro Regional Para Investigaciones Agrarias, Apartado Oficial, E - 30150 La Alberca, Murcia, Spain).