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- Sustainable livestock farming – defining metrics and rationalising trade-offs?
- Pasture based solutions to realise a role for ruminants in a sustainable food system
- Resilient livestock farming systems in the face of climate and other global challenges – adaptation and mitigation
- Carbon sources and sinks within global livestock systems
- Transformation of livestock practices in response to society’s expectations on animal welfare, market demand for animal products and environmental issues
- Livestock based circularity for health and sustainable land use
- Technologies for outdoor systems: which application and opportunities?
- TechCare and ClearFarm: pilots on PLF tools for monitoring animal welfare
- Precision feeding
- Happy Delivering innovative and holistic milk based monitoring and decision-making PLF tools – collaboration with HappyMoo
- PLF for health and welfare
- Algorithms and machine vision embedded locally in the sensor or computer
- Explainable models and artificial intelligence supporting farming decisions
- Early career competition ‘Innovative approaches to pig and poultry production’, supported by Wageningen Academic Publishers
- Socially acceptable pig and poultry production: what are the consequences? How can research help coping with social, environmental and legislative issues? How to meet higher animal welfare standards?
- Sustainable pig and poultry production, including the use of water
- How can poultry farming systems evolve to meet the major societal and environmental challenges?
- Invited abstracts only, Trade-offs between health, production and welfare in pigs and poultry: which tools do we have and which research is needed?
- Invited abstracts only, Consequences of globalization on animal production (eg diet, energy in pig and poultry production)
- Is there a future for experimental animal research in Europe and, if so, what is it?
- Monoguthealth
- Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare
- Impact of epigenetics and genetics in determining animal physiology
- Recent advances on in vitro systems (from cell culture to in vitro digestion methods): relevance as alternatives to animal experimentation for livestock research
- Omics and integrative analyses towards understanding inter-organ cross-talk and whole body physiology of livestock
- Environmental stress: mitigating the adverse effects on animal physiology
- Remote sensing applied to livestock farming: discovering physiological and ethological clues to optimize productive performance and animal welfare
- HoloRuminant (EU H2020 project)
- Understanding the role of dam colostrum and milk biochemistry in regulating offspring immune and metabolic physiology
- Inflammation and energy metabolism in livestock
- Improved insight into the reproductive physiology of livestock
- Up side and down side of “genomic selection”
- Molecular measures of diversity and their role in monitoring and management of breeds
- Adaptation of breeding strategies and genetics to climate change, right animal for right environment
- Contribution of animal genetic resources to climate change adaptation
- Establishing and scaling up breeding programs in extensive systems including developing regions
- Continuation of 2022 big data theme for breeding purposes
- Breeding for climate change
- Breeding for climate change – mitigation
- Breeding for climate change – adaptation
- EuroFAANG: genotype-to-phenotype research across Europe and beyond
- Open the black box: using omics to better understand biological interpretation of complex traits
- New traits and proxies from sensor technologies for breeding purposes
- Breeding for improved animal health and welfare
- Building on a resilient dairy sector – from animal, farm and regional perspective
- Climate care dairy farming: follow up
- Grassland management and grassland-based feeding systems for efficient and sustainable milk and meat production
- Better calves for better farms: how the young stock can be the key of the success
- Tropical and Mediterranean dairy value chains – technical and organizational innovations
- Looking back, looking forward – Research on Beef production and quality in China and France (CSBF) and between Australia-France-China (The Triangle Project)
- Environmental challenges of cattle tropical grazing systems
- Innovative animal products and farming systems oriented to new consumer demand and trend
- Carcase grading for quality and efficiency – underpinning future sustainability of beef and lamb
- “Cell-based products and animal products alternatives”
- Production of high quality meat from ruminants and implementation of new tecnology in animal husbandry
- Insects in sustainable world
- Insect nutrition (substrates) & insect health
- Technologies in insect production + controlling quality
- Insect applications
- Legislation, safety and impact on society
- Insect genetics and reproduction
- Project session: Farmyng
- Improving the welfare of farmed animal species in conventional production systems through changes to housing and management practices.
- Identification and development of positive and/or novel welfare indicators for farm animals
- Application of the 3 S’s approach in the livestock sectors: suppress, substitute and soothe
- Strengths and challenges of alternative animal production systems
- Human-horse relationship
- ###Invited abstracts only### Working horses
- Role of the horse in farms and territories
- Genetics in horses
- Challenges of fish nutrition for sustainable aquaculture
- One-health, one nutrion, one Earth: role of nutrtion in livestock production
- Advances in ruminant modelling and nutrition [In memory of Daniel Sauvant]
- Balancing the feed for the economy, the environment, and society
- Innovation in ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition and feeding
- Mineral supply in animal feeds: challenges and opportunities
- Beyond rumen: role of nutrtion in cattle’s intestinal health
- Potential development of NBT (New BioTechnologies) in feed and animal productions
- Molecules in animal nutrition: over and above building blocks
- Alternative and new feed resources to reduce feed/food competition and enhance circularity of livestock production
- Alternatives to hormones, antibiotics, dewormers and chemical inputs in (equine) breeding and production
- Monitoring and improving the technical and economical efficiency of sheep and goat farms and production systems
- Quality and typicity of traditional products of sheep and goats reared in mountain areas
- Small ruminants production in the era of Agriculture 4.0: milk, meat, feeding, management, genetics, circular economy
- The transition from pregnancy to lactation in dairy goats and sheep
- Life Green Sheep
- Farm management to adapt goat and sheep farming to climate change: solutions and experiments
- Innovations and technological advancements of farm management in Mediterranean semi-extensive or extensive small ruminant production systems
- Sustainable wool and animal fiber production in a changing global environment
- ERANET-funded “Grass To Gas” and EU-funded “SMARTER” projects
- Small Ruminant Technologies (Sm@RT) and Thematic network EuroSheep
- Stakeholder and societal expectations of intrinsic and extrinsic quality of animal products: how to address them?
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