评估欧洲乳制品性养殖的解决方案
Abele Kuipers1, Søren Østergaard2, Ralf Loges3
1Livestock Research, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 WD Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
|October 26, 2024
概括
欧盟乳制品弹性 (R4D) 项目确定了欧洲乳制品弹性养殖的关键实践. 技术效率,社会参与和动物健康是提高农场弹性的主要优先事项.
科学领域:
- 农业科学 农业科学
- 动物科学动物科学
- 社会经济学 社会经济学
背景情况:
- 欧盟的乳制品弹性 (R4D) 项目旨在建立一个自我可持续的专题网络,专注于弹性乳制品农场.
- 这项研究专门评估了在15个欧洲国家为乳制品养殖部门的弹性做出贡献的做法和技术.
研究的目的:
- 识别和评估解决方案 (实践和技术),以提高乳制品农场的弹性.
- 分析有关这些解决方案的专家,农民和利益相关者的意见.
- 探索在感知和采用提高弹性战略的区域差异.
主要方法:
- 通过调查和当地研讨会,收集和评分专家,农民和利益相关者的意见.
- 评估六个关键知识领域的解决方案:经济和社会性,技术效率,环境,动物福利和健康以及社会认知.
- 评估解决方案的吸引力和准备以及弹性贡献.
主要成果:
- 这六个知识领域有效地预测了奶牛场的弹性,动物福利/健康和社会观念之间有明显的重叠.
- 区域存在差异,南欧和东欧专家通常比北欧和西欧同行更乐观地看待解决方案,除了社会方面.
- 专家和农民/利益相关者的意见在几个解决方案上存在分歧,强调技术效率作为主要策略.
结论:
- 通过关键知识领域,可以有效地衡量奶牛场的弹性,尽管区域和利益相关方的观点各不相同.
- 提高奶牛养殖场性的优先领域包括社会沟通,可再生能源,脚修剪,疾病检测,生育率监测和小牛养殖.
- 该R4D项目提供了一个框架,通过评估实际解决方案和各种利益相关者的观点来加强弹性奶牛养殖.
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