Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems' Welfare
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Upcoming events PPILOW Participation
Joint Conference OK-Net EcoFeed – PPILOW – FreeBirds – POWER European projects “Improving sustainability and welfare in organic poultry and pig production”: 25th – 26th January 2021, remote meeting. Involved partners: AIAB, AU, ACTA(ITAB), INRAE, LUKE, UU, EV ILVO. The European Association of Agricultural Economist Congress (EAAE): 20th to 23rdJuly 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic. […]
New people in the PPILOW project: Evelien Graat, Helen Pluschke
Evelien Graat (ILVO, PhD student) Evelien Graat is a PhD student in the animal welfare research group at ILVO who works on the PPILOW project full time. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in behavioural ecology from Utrecht University. Her PhD project focusses on welfare self-assessments of pigs and poultry […]
PPILOW co-creates innovations for welfare improvement thanks to professionals and associations of the poultry and pig production sectors
by Anne Collin (INRAE) PPILOW, as a multi-actor project, involves several private partners from the poultry and pig sectors in order to propose innovations for improving the welfare of pigs and poultry in organic and low-input outdoor production systems. Among them, Circular Organics (Belgium) produces live insect larvae that are currently tested for avoiding feather […]
Early life innovations to improve welfare of laying hens
by Saskia Kliphuis (UU) It has been six crazy months since the previous issue of the PPILOW newsletter, when we gave our last update on our experimental work. As 2020 has shown us, a lot can happen in half a year. In spite the pandemic and the lockdown that followed, we were able to continue […]
WP3: EBENE/PIGLOW apps and WP.3 progress
by Laura Warin (ITAVI), Frank Tuyttens and Evelien Graat (ILVO) Two mobile applications have been developed (PIGLOW app for pigs) or modified (EBENE® app for poultry) for farmers to self-assess the welfare of their animals. These apps are available on the Google Play Store and on the App Store in 3 different languages: Dutch, English […]
WP2: NPGs, facilitators and co-creation
by Cristina Micheloni (AIAB) Despite COVID-19 restrictions facilitators managed to keep in contact and fine tune the methodology to set up and manage the National Practitioner Groups (NPGs) on Poultry (in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium-Netherlands, and Denmark) and on Pigs (in Italy, France, Belgium and Romania). 7 out of 9 NPGs had already a first […]
The PPILOW project is one year old!
by Anne Collin (INRAE) The first annual meeting of the European PPILOW project (Poultry and PIG Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare, 2019-2024, www.ppilow.eu) was held from the 5th to the 7th of October. During this 3-day online meeting, more than 80 attendees from the 23 PPILOW partner organizations in 9 countries, and several members […]
Joint Online Conference OK-Net EcoFeed, PPILOW, Freebirds and POWER EU Projects!
“SAVE THE DATE!!! IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY AND WELFARE IN ORGANIC POULTRY AND PIG PRODUCTION 25TH-26TH JANUARY 2021, ONLINE It is with great excitement that OK-Net EcoFeed announces its final project conference bringing together 4 Horizon 2020 projects: OK-Net EcoFeed, PPILOW, Freebirds and POWER. Mark the 25th – 26th of January 2021 in your calendar and follow us for […]
EUREKA project survey: to improve the future in agriculture/forestry!
EUREKA is a project funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme that aims to build an EU-level Agricultural Knowledge Repository to ensure that all those working in the industry have easy access to the best, most up-to-date information in the farming and forestry sectors. The main goal is to promote knowledge sharing and […]
Job Offer at ILVO!
ILVO is looking for a researcher on welfare of farm animals to employ on the EU project PPILOW starting from November 2020. Deadline: 11th October 2020. For more information and application, read the job vacancy.