Objective
iSAGE will enhance the sustainability, competitiveness and resilience of the European Sheep and Goat sectors through collaboration between industry and research. iSAGE have a powerful consortium with 18 industry representatives from various EU production systems and socio-economic contexts. The sheep and goat sector will be investigated because it is sensitive to general socio-economic, demographic, and ecological and market challenges; nevertheless, the project’s approach and results will be made available and disseminated to other EU livestock industries. Therefore, at the core of iSAGE is a participatory approach centered on a multi-actor internal and external communication (WP) to build the project from the farmer level. This approach will ensure relevant issues are addressed and the project outcomes are applicable in practice and create a farm-level observatory and knowledge exchange network on the sustainability of livestock. This WP will also assist three assessment work packages that will deal with the sustainability assessment of sheep and goat farm systems and related supply chains, with socio-economic demographic and consumer trend analyses, and with the impacts of climate change. Assessment WPs will inform action WPs that will: (1) redesign holistic farming systems to best reconcile the various demands concerning productivity, sustainability and societal values. (2) identify industry solutions that aim to improve sustainability and productivity of sheep and goat systems through breeding, including new phenotypes linked to sustainable animal productivity. iSAGE, together with stakeholders and end-users, will draft a roadmap for further research and policy making. The stakeholder groups will be the key players in disseminating project outputs through case studies and demonstrations to act as a blueprint to other producers across Europe and create networks to assist wider implementation of iSAGE outputs.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernancepublic services
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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546 27 Thessaloniki
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60100 Katerini
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30100 Agrinio
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00790 Helsinki
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01301 Vantaa
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75007 Paris
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75012 Paris
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86550 Mignaloux Beauvoir
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31320 Castanet-Tolosan
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00161 Roma
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60121 Ancona
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40122 Bologna
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50059 Zaragoza
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28006 Madrid
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50004 Zaragoza
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48940 Leioa
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50014 Zaragoza
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18220 Albolote
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49800 Toro Zamora
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01192 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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48160 Vizcaya
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02006 Albacete
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47800 Valladolid
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51240 NIGDE
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25240 Erzurum
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27090 SEHITKAMIL GAZIANTEP
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06690 CANKAYA ANKARA
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27060 SEHITKAMIL GAZIANTEP
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EH9 3JG Edinburgh
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GL7 6JN Cirencester
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WR13 6PH Malvern
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CV8 2TL Kenilworth
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YO424NP York
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50059 Zaragoza
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