EIP-AGRI, the European Innovation Partnership in productivity and sustainability in agriculture, launched by the European Commission in 2012, aims at promoting competitive and sustainable agricultural and forestry sectors to help ensure a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials, and sustainable management of essential natural resources depending on agriculture and forestry, working in harmony with the environment. To achieve this, the EIP-AGRI brings together innovation actors (farmers, advisors, researchers, businesses, NGOs, etc) and helps to build bridges between research and practice activities.
EIP-AGRI has published a call for 3 new EIP-AGRI Focus Groups. If you are involved in agroforestry, dairy farming or tending vineyards and would you like to work with 19 other experts from different European countries, it is now possible two apply.
The 3 Focus Groups will be looking into the following specific questions:
Robust and resilient dairy production systems - How to create good conditions for dairy cattle husbandry in different production systems? The group should look at breeding, nutrition, fertility, health, welfare, monitoring, and overall management in all parts of the life cycle of animals. The impact on profitability and sustainability (in animal welfare terms) should be assessed.
Agroforestry: introducing woody vegetation into specialised crop and livestock systems - How to develop agroforestry as a sustainable farming system which can boost agricultural productivity and profitability?
Diseases and pests in viticulture - How can we increase resilience of grape vines to pests and diseases and support productivity of the sector in sustainable ways?
To apply, read the call text carefully HERE and complete the online application before Monday 11 July 2016 at 23:59 hours CET (Brussels time)
HERE is the EIP-AGRI brochure on focus-groups.
Source: EIP-AGRI
