Objective
The concerted action proposed will bring together 6 partners in Northern Europe. The objective of the project is to create a working group of researchers from private and public institutions to evaluate potential for improving plant quality when used as forages for ruminants, to use new plants and improve the description of these and to adjust plant breeding objectives and ruminant nutritional strategies with the objective to reduce the environmental impact of ruminant production systems.
The programme will promote greater interaction and dialogue among researchers from private and public institutions from a wide range of biological disciplines. This will result in better integration of research effort and resulting in more effective use of research resources within the EU. A catalogue will be developed of sources of data and research work already carried out. A web site will be set up. Fifteen workshops will be organised to evaluate the impact of novel developments in other specialist research areas and the impact it will have on specific work areas. Two conferences will be organised to promote further interaction and promote the work which has been carried out within the workshops.
The programme will result in 315 man movements of specialists throughout Europe. The work will result in improved integration of research effort in different areas of plant production and ruminant production. Major progress and its potential will be described in various specialist areas. The impact of this progress within various specialist subject areas will be evaluated. This will result in a reduced environmental impact of plant ruminant production systems, leading to the development of sustainable, low input, consumer friendly farming methods.
Through a better co-ordination, following benefits are going to be achieved
(A) Technical and scientific - Improved identification of research requirements. - Increased sustainable development within production systems. - Increased animal welfare. - Improved identification of research areas that require vertical integration.
B) Economic - Increased rural development through identification of viable option for improvement of current production systems and methods.
(C) Environmental - Protection of the environment through the development of systems that result in reduced nutrient losses to the environment. - Reduced claims of ruminant production systems on limited natural resources, such as fossil energy. - Increased biodiversity through reduced N-inputs and increase of number of plant species used in ruminant production systems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture agronomy plant breeding
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry
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Coordinator
DG1 4SZ DUMFRIES
United Kingdom
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