Objective Background :This project aims to adjust primary production systems in less favoured areas so that they preserve landscape environments, become sustainable in terms of socio-economics and aid development of rural communities. The research will be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, concentrating on vegetation biology, animal science and socio-economics.The major management tool which this project will address is the grazing ruminant. There is a lack of scientific and technical knowledge on which to base grazing management strategies where the primary aim is preservation or recreation of landscape environments.The objective is : to investigate methods preserving landscape environments in the less favoured areas (LFAs) through modifications to grazing animal production systems.Short description of the project :There are 4 specific objectives (1) to define ecological management practices and indicators for the target areas (2) to integrate husbandry practices with sustainable landscape management (3) to assess the effects of changes in animal production systems on regional development, socio-economics and use of the landscape for amenity purposes and (4) to assess the potential of marketing both the environmental quality of the landscape and the quality of its animal products. Numerous tasks are described for the purposes of quantifying the interactions between livestock farming systems and landscape preservation. Throughout the project there is involvement of the groups which ultimately decide on what will be done namely the farmers, the local public and the policy makers. The benefits will be in the provision of appropriate technical and economic knowledge to the farmers who must manage the landscape and to policy makers who may have to devise subsidy support and other schemes for both the preservation of the landscape and the maintenance of rural communities. Fields of science agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandrysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management Programme(s) FP4-FAIR - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998 Topic(s) 4.1.1 - Optimisation of methods, systems and primary production chains Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) Address Auchincruive KA6 5HW Ayr United Kingdom See on map EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address P.o. box 236 540 06 Thessaloniki See on map Other funding No data E.N.E.A. Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via anguillarese, 301 00060 Santa maria di galeria (roma) See on map Other funding No data I.N.R.A. - DOMAINE SAINT PAUL France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Domaine saint-paul - site agroparc 84914 Avignon See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITÄT KASSEL Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Steinstr., 19 37213 Witzenhausen See on map Other funding No data Università degli Studi di Perugia Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via san costanzo 4 06126 Perugia See on map Other funding No data
