Project description
Innovative practices for climate change resilient livestock farming
Livestock farming systems generate considerable greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn contribute significantly to climate change. The EU-funded Re-Livestock project will assess and mobilise the adoption of innovative practices, applied on cross-level interactions, to reduce livestock farming-related greenhouse gas emissions and increase their capacity to mitigate potential climate change impacts. The project will develop innovative and science-backed methods tailored to different dairy, beef, and pig systems and geographic regions in the context of climate change in close collaboration with industry stakeholders. Re-Livestock brings together excellent scientific expertise in Europe and Australia and across disciplines, including co-innovation, animal feeding, breeding, welfare, farm management, environmental and socio-economic assessment, and policy analysis.
Objective
The overall objective of Re-Livestock is to evaluate and mobilize the adoption of innovative practices applied cross-scale (animal, herd, farm, sector and region) to reduce GHG emissions from livestock farming systems and increase their capacity to dealing with potential climate change impacts. To reach our aim, Re-Livestock have brought together the excellence scientific expertise in Europe and Australia and across disciplines, including co-innovation, animal feeding, breeding, welfare, farm management, environmental and socio-economic assessment and policy analysis, to develop novel and scientifically supported integrated approaches specific for different dairy, beef and pig systems and geographic regions in the context of climate change. Strong collaboration with industry stakeholders to identify the innovations and to co-design the validation will ensure relevance and maximise the adoption of best practices. National groups of farmers (case studies) and ‘stakeholder forums’ together with a ‘European multi-actor platform’ will allow for an engaged co-design of transition pathways whilst ‘learning from innovation networks’ will allow for the testing and sharing of latest innovative solutions. A ‘community of practice’ will extend the multi-actor approach to a broad range of stakeholders.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandryanimal feed
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Participants (24)
6708 PB Wageningen
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40126 Bologna
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46022 Valencia
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6708 PB Wageningen
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750 07 Uppsala
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8000 Aarhus C
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50059 Zaragoza
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4 Dublin
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56126 Pisa
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7800-502 Beja
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7750-217 Espirito Santo, Mertola
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14473 Potsdam
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6717 XA Ede Gld
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6843 NW Arnhem
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8200 AARHUS N
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06006 Badajoz
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60 637 Poznan
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40006 Segovia
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1180 Wien
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00198 Roma
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08174 SANT CUGAT DEL VALLES
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28016 Madrid
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05004 AVILA
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13700 Tomelloso
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Partners (12)
5070 Frick
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3003 Bern
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7325 AW Apeldoorn
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6515 AB Nijmegen
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4072 Brisbane
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2289 CL Rijswijk
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4303 Kaiseraugst
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RG6 6AH Reading
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EH9 3JG Edinburgh
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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GL7 6JN Cirencester
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
GL7 6JN Cirencester
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