LIVENET – Towards More Sustainable Livestock Production
Sustainable livestock production refers to practices that are ecologically, economically and socially responsible while ensuring animal welfare in the long term. The goal of the LIVENET project is to promote sustainability in livestock production through networking, increased knowledge exchange, and the dissemination of innovative practices
LIVENET Objectives
The main objective of the LIVENET project is to establish and strengthen a network of advisory services across the EU, enhance knowledge exchange among advisors and within the broader Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), and promote the adoption of innovative solutions for sustainable livestock production by farmers.
The project aims to achieve its goals through the following actions:
Establishing and developing an EU-wide network of livestock advisors, building on existing networks and national AKIS structures. The network will cover all European pedo-climatic regions, including 10 EU regional clusters, and represent the major livestock production sectors.
Collecting, selecting, evaluating, adapting, and validating Innovative Advisory Practices (IAPs). These are practices that are technically, economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and can be successfully applied throughout the EU.
Widespread dissemination of solutions through training, demonstration events, and other activities targeting advisors, experts, students, and other actors along the value chain to support the uptake of IAPs.
Creating connections with other regional, national, and EU-level projects, initiatives, and policy makers to better integrate livestock advisory organisations into AKIS. The project follows a multi-actor approach, involving 20 organisations with extensive experience in advisory services and sustainable livestock production.
Twinning – co-operation with neighbouring countries
The project covers all 27 EU Member States, as well as the United Kingdom and Switzerland. To ensure inclusion of all Member States, the project applies a “twinning” approach: the project partners will establish national networks, which will collaborate with 18 associated networks through the twinning programme. ProAgria is responsible for forming a twinning collaboration network with Sweden and Denmark.
Read more about the project from EU Cordis service and from project webpage https://livenetproject.eu/
The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant decision number 101182590.
