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Inspirational ideas: Smart barn makes for happy pigs
Innovative barn infrastructure and real-time monitoring to improve animal welfare and reduce ammonia emissions.
Consumers are calling for more affordable, sustainable pork which is produced in improved animal welfare systems. This was the context identified by the Dutch Operational Group ‘Data driven project’. The partners have developed a pilot barn concept in which the pigs are monitored in real time using ear-tag sensors so...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network, Eip Agri
Article de revue spécialisée
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors
Livestock production is confronted with significant challenges across all dimensions of sustainability. There is an urgent need to identify sustainable livestock systems that are environmentally friendly, economically viable for farmers, and socially acceptable. To this end, diversity assessments and data-driven indicator-based sustainability assessments can be helpful tools. These two mutually...
2023
Article de blog
Journée d’étude 2023 - Retour sur la journée d’études IRAM : Enjeux et défis de la cohésion sociale et du développement économique en République centrafricaine
Le 8 février 2023, l’Iram, l’ONG Echelle Appui au développement et l’Université de Bangui ont organisé une Journée d’étude sur le thème du "Développement économique et cohésion sociale en République centrafricaine". Celle-ci a permis de rassembler une soixantaine de participants, au centre international Galaxy à Bangui.
La Journée d’études avait pour...
2023 - PLATEFORME DE RESSOURCES SUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES TERRITOIRES RURAUX EN CENTRAFRIQUE
Rapport
Avances y desafíos en la ganadería de América Latina y el Caribe Medidas de mitigación apropiadas para cada país
Medidas de mitigación apropiadas para cada país
Este documento tiene como objetivo presentar los avances generales alcanzados en el desarrollo e implementación de las medidas de mitigación apropiadas para cada país ganaderas en América Latina y el Caribe hasta el año 2022, así como identificar las principales necesidades y requerimientos de los países en temas de mitigación...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Vidéos
Diversity of Animal Genetic Resources
More than 2,400 livestock breeds are at risk of extinction, while 600 are already extinct, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). If managed sustainably, this diversity can be used to increase production and allow livestock to adapt to challenges such as climate change. FAO's Intergovernmental Technical Working Group...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vidéos
'Hoofprints on the Land' and why we need livestock in the landscape!
'Hoofprints on the Land' and why we need livestock in the landscape! The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR).
2023 - CAWR Coventry University
Ouvrage
Family Farming in Spain 2023 Yearbook
Agriculture and livestock facing the challenge of climate change. Innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainable progress
In 1994, UPA began the adventure of publishing a Yearbook of Family Farming. The objective was simple, although ambitious: to collect in an annual work the main data, ideas and proposals of this production model, which in the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers we have defended since our origin.
Now,...
Spain
2023 - Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers of Spain - Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA)
Manuel
Analyse des trajectoires des politiques et du droit foncier agropastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest
Cette publication rend compte des trajectoires contrastées des politiques de sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il est courant de souligner qu’en Afrique de l’Ouest, la question du « foncier pastoral » est fréquemment au cœur de l’actualité notamment à travers la fréquence des conflits agro-pastoraux souvent meurtriers,...
2023 - Comité technique « Foncier & développement »
Article de blog
Fortifying veterinary training in fighting antimicrobial resistance
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced its commitment to assess the competence of veterinary graduates in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial stewardship in selected countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. This initiative is part of the project “Reducing the...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Article du bulletin d’information
UNESCO nomination of Swedish and Norwegian summer-mountain farming and pastoralism
Summer farming at fäbod and seter – knowledge, traditions and practices related to grazing of outlying lands and artisan food production” to the UNESCO Representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity
The gouverments in Sweden and Norway have nominated the "Summer farming at fäbod andseter – knowledge, traditions and practices related to grazing of outlying lands and artisan food production” to the UNESCO Representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity
There are now only 750 active summer- mountain frams in...
Norway
2023 - Norsk seterkultur
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OK-Net EcoFeed
The overall aim of OK-Net EcoFeed is to help farmers, breeders and the organic feed processing industry in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed for monogastrics, in particular pigs, broilers, laying hens and parents of broilers and laying hens.
In the last two decades, the market...
2023 - IFOAM EU
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How to increase the nutritional value of beans for pig and poultry diets
With the support of the OK-Net EcoFeed project this field lab has been investigating ways of reducing pig and poultry farmer's reliance on imported protein for animal feed. Beans are commonly grown in rotation as a fertility-building cash crop, but they contain antinutritional factors, which limit their inclusion in monogastric...
2023 - Innovative Farmers
Article
Modern Management of Livestock and Pastures in Nomadic Communities
For thousands of years, pastoralism was the primary economic resource of millions of people, and today it is one of the major activities in many rural communities. This case study uses Elin Ostrom's (2009) eight principles to analyse the impact of the Kyrgyz pasture law on nomadic communities and promote...
2023
Article de blog
FAO supports Lao farmers to boost cattle trade to China
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), kicked off a two-week training course on animal quarantine management in Sing District, a border area between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and China. The training course aimed to accelerate safer cattle...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Building subnational capacities in animal health to deliver frontline cross-sectoral health services in Kenya
Operationalizing effective subnational veterinary services as major contributor to disease surveillance, reporting, diagnoses and One Health requires resources and mindset change. Here we describe workforce capacity building in animal health in Kenya and an approach that can be used to skill-up this workforce to respond beyond animal health challenges to...
Kenya
2023 - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Article de blog
Letter From The Farm | The More-Than-Human Magic of Transhumance
The transhumance is a privileged moment between shepherd and animal, an experience like no other. Both parties know what is expected of them, coming together as a team, walking towards a common goal in symbiosis. Photo © Claire Jeannerat
2023 - ARC2020
Article
Towards Eradication of PPR: Disease Status, Economic Cost and Perception of Veterinarians in Karnataka, India
In this study, we assessed the PPR disease status, its economic cost, the financial viability of vaccination, and the perspectives of field veterinarians on the PPR vaccination programme implemented in Karnataka state, India. In addition to secondary data, cross-sectional surveys undertaken during 2016–17 (survey I) and 2018–19 (survey II) from...
India
2023
Rapport
Livestock farming in the European Union: supporting an ambitious transition to peasant farming
Livestock is the subject of widespread allegations regarding its responsibility for global warming. And yet authorisations for factory farms continue to be granted and there is still major confusion about the different types of livestock farming. This confusion, added to the call for people to eat "less but better meat",...
2023 - European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
Bulletin d'information
Bulletin de veille thématique n°468 : Pastoralisme et environnement
La quête opiniâtre d’un monde équilibré et apaisé remet en selle un certain nombre de problématiques sensibles voire stratégiques. Stratégiques en raison de leur ambivalence, de la disparité des enjeux et intérêts qu’elles mobilisent, des vives conflictualités qu’elles génèrent et des approches scientifiques et socio-culturelles intégrées que requiert leur gestion....
2023 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
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Organic farming systems_GENERAL Fiche
This general fiche summarises all the environmental and climate impacts of organic farming systems and specifically on organic livestock systems, found in a review of 30 synthesis research papers [1]. These papers were selected from an initial number of 220 obtained through a systematic literature search strategy, according to the inclusion criteria reported...
European Union
2023 - European Commission
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