University of Turin
Acronym:
DISAFA
Region:
Europe
Country:
Italy
Address:
largo Paolo Braccini, 2 - 10095 Grugliasco (Italy)
Email address:
[email protected]
Organization profile
Type of Organization:
Research organization
Membership based:
Year of establish:
1750
Objective:
"The University of Torino is today one of the largest Italian Universities, open to international research and training. The mission of the Department of Agricultural, Forestry, and Food Sciences (DISAFA – University of Torino) is to perform basic and applied research, and to offer educational programmes at undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral level, in the fields of plant- and animal-based primary production and transformation processes, and on the interactions of these activities with the territory and environment. DiSAFA is devoted to perform world-class fundamental research to deliver knowledge and innovation, and provide evidence-based sustainable solutions to current and future challenges. One of its roles (Animal Production Unit) is providing scientific methods and validated instruments to characterize the pastoral farming systems through intrinsic quality attributes and extrinsic (e.g. ecosystem services related to farming systems, such as conservation of biodiversity, maintenance of cultural and aesthetic value of the landscape, etc.). Other tasks are training seminars for teachers and students of partners through thematic seminars on the topic of services offered by pastoral systems (e.g. investigations on the qualitative characteristics of pastoral food products); dissemination activities and third mission. The Animal Production ULF of the DISAFA Department is also developing in last decades a powerful work on Alpine pastoralism and a strong multidisciplinary cooperation from animal production disciplines to anthropological-social studies.sks are training seminars for teachers and students of partners through thematic seminars on the topic of services offered by pastoral systems (e.g. investigations on the qualitative characteristics of pastoral food products); dissemination activities and third mission.
The Animal Production ULF of the DISAFA Department is also developing in last decades a powerful work on Alpine pastoralism and a strong multidisciplinary cooperation from animal production disciplines to anthropological-social studies"
Areas of work
Animal production
Education
Vocational training
Organizational development
Secondary informations
Number of pastoralists covered:
5
Location of interventions:
North Western Italian Alps
Networks / partners:
Appia Network www.retepastorizia.it
First contact person
First name:
Luca
Family name:
Battaglini
Position:
Full professor
Email:
[email protected]
Phone number:
+39011 67085 77 +393355868847
Second contact person
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