Project description
Organic and low-input outdoor farming solutions to improve welfare of poultry and pigs
Consumers are moving away from industrialised bulk production towards high quality organic or low-input outdoor farming, which uses management practices and alternative remedies to manage the health of their animals. Organic pig and poultry production is expanding globally to meet this demand. The EU-funded PPILOW project will co-construct solutions to improve the welfare of poultry and pigs reared in organic and low-input outdoor farming systems. It will involve all actors of the production chain – from farmers to consumers and scientists to policymakers. The project will design assessment tools, innovative breeding and rearing strategies, and techniques for improving the welfare of animals. To ensure rapid uptake, the project plans to disseminate activities through trainings, videos and field partners.
Objective
The PPILOW project aims to co-construct through a multi-actor approach solutions to improve the welfare of poultry and pigs reared in organic and low-input outdoor farming systems. The first originality of PPILOW is the participatory approach, involving all actors of the production chain from farmers to consumers, citizens, scientists and policy makers, for proposing and studying welfare improvement levers. The second originality of the project is to provide a combination of practical solutions for welfare improvement that can be applied on a pan-European basis with specific adjustments depending on citizen’s expectations and the target market (national legislation or consumer preferences). More precisely, PPILOW will co-create with end-users welfare self-assessment tools, innovative breeding and rearing strategies and techniques for improving the welfare of animals by avoiding mutilations (piglet castration or beak trimming in poultry), the elimination of one day-old layer male chicks, favouring positive behaviours, and improving health and robustness in both species. The innovative solutions will be investigated experimentally and the most promising ones will be tested on-farm. Multi-criteria analyses of the most effective breeding and rearing strategies will then be realised to evaluate their economic, social and environmental impacts based on the ‘One Welfare’ concept embracing sustainability goals with specific emphasis on animal and human welfare. Business models will be created for the use of high-quality products issued from the adoption of PPILOW strategies to improve welfare in organic and low-input outdoor farming systems for poultry and pigs. Finally, to ensure the rapid uptake of the project results by end-users, appropriate dissemination activities will be developed (such as training, digital videos from field partners, EIP abstracts…) and the close involvement of national practitioner groups throughout the EU will be managed to facilitate change.
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75007 Paris
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Participants (29)
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75116 Paris
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3584 CS Utrecht
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8000 Aarhus C
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75012 Paris
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75012 Paris
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75009 Paris
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75595 Paris
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75020 Paris
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9820 Merelbeke
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89035 Bova Marina
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00790 Helsinki
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38116 Braunschweig
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00161 Roma
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6708 PB Wageningen
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06123 Perugia
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37380 Nouzilly
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5030 Gembloux
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6622 Bække
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2018 Antwerpen
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TF10 8NB Newport
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12042 Bra
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59046 Lille Cedex
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75794 Paris
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31077 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4
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31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
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400372 Cluj Napoca
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2300 Turnhout
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75013 PARIS
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