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PPILOW’s People: Pietro Luciano Venezia!
I graduated in Veterinary Medicine in Parma in 1990 and since 1991 I have been working in permaculture (PDC Permaculture Design Course) and in Non-Conventional Medicine (MNC). From 1991 to 1997 I lived in Guatemala where I met and practiced permaculture together with the French agronomist Benoit Maria, I then continued my study and work […]
Ebene – Poultry Welfare Application!
One of the aims of the PPILOW project is to develop tools for organic and free-range farmers to monitor the welfare of their own animals. For this purpose, the EBENE app was refined for poultry farmers. With this app, poultry farmers can conduct welfare assessments of their animals and view their results, which include automated […]
PPILOW’s People: Henry van den Brand!
My part of the PPILOW project still has to start. I am thrilled to start in Spring 2022 with incubation experiments, in which we will incubate eggs of very slow growing broiler chickens in different ways. We will increase or decrease the incubation temperature during 12 hours per day in the most sensitive period of […]
Already two years of co-creation of innovations with the European practitioners, consumers and citizens in the PPILOW project!
The second annual meeting of the European PPILOW project (Poultry and PIG Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare, 2019-2024) was held from the 21st to the 23rd of September, 2021. During this 3-days online meeting, 22 PPILOW partners from 9 European countries shared PPILOW advances with the members of its European Multiactor Board and National […]
PPILOW 1st video web series!
One of the PPILOW project activities is to create a web series of 10 episodes. The 1st video has been though as a teaser with the goal to present, in general, the objectives and targets of the project. Enjoy this nice video!
PPILOW’s People: Anna Zuliani!
I’m Anna Zuliani and I was born in 1985 in Udine-Italy. I graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Parma (Italy) in 2009. After a research-based Master of Science at the University of Calgary (Canada) I joined the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Science at the University of Udine for my PhD […]
PPILOW’s People: Mihai Horia Bǎieş!
I am graduated in 2019 in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ClujNapoca. Currently, I am a PhD student at the Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Disease, scientific coordinator, Prof. Dr. Vasile COZMA. The topic of my doctoral thesis is “The control of digestive nematodes and protozoa […]
PPILOW Workshop OWC 2021!
The Organic World Congress (OWC) will be held in Rennes (France) from 6th to 10th September 2021. During the OWC 2021, the workshop “How to improve poultry and pig welfare in organic production systems?” will be held online on 8th September from 11.00 to 12.30 CET. Organizers: C. Micheloni (AIAB, Italy) & A.Collin (INRAE, France) […]
PPILOW’s People: Jacopo Goracci!
I’m Jacopo Goracci and I’m a zootechnician. I graduated in Animal Science at the University of Pisa in 2002 and I obtained my PhD in Animal Production in 2007 with a thesis on pasture-raised local pigs. Since 2005 I have been the technical manager of the agro-zootechnical organic farm Tenuta di Paganico, where we raise […]
PPILOW participation to the WAFL Conference 2021!
The 8th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level (WAFL) will be held on 16th-19th August 2021 and will be a virtual conference. PPILOW representatives will participate to present the activities of the project: Mathilde Stomp (ITAVI-ACTA) presentation about the EBENE app: “EBENE®: an efficient e-tool to identify areas for […]