4 - Organic Animal Husbandry Systems – Ways to Improvement

Main Topics:

• Organic husbandry in a farming system approach
• Animal-friendly, sustainable feeding and grazing systems
• Breeding programs and strategies
• Animal welfare approaches and strategies
• Animal health and use of bioactive medicinal plants
• Role of animals for optimizing plant production systems and global agricultural production
• Organic livestock products and marketing organic livestock practices
• Importance of livestock to healthy soils, pastures, ecosystems, and nutrition

Objectives:

• Offer farmers, advisors, and researchers the opportunity to exchange information, experiences, and research results with a focus on organic livestock systems and their vital role in sustainable production systems
• Offer European Union CORE ORGANIC livestock research project coordinators a platform to present their preliminary research results
• Commonly articulate potentials, challenges, development pathways, and needs of organic livestock production for different climatic regions and socio-cultural contexts around the world;
• Discuss projects with colleagues from around the world and learn from one another’s perspectives and experiences

Expected Outcomes:

• Papers and posters on experimentation or development projects for organic animal husbandry;
• Workshop discussion synthesis – to be presented at the main conference;
• Global network building;
• Stimulate common learning process between actors working on animal husbandry;
• Discussion and exchange on specific issues to further the organic livestock industry.

Format and Programme:

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