PPILOW

Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems' Welfare
PPILOW

Technical days

2024

  1. INRAE, ACTA/ITAVI and Thuenen participated to a Technical Workshop for broilers and laying hens within the “Journée PPILOW-FNAB Commission volailles” in Paris (France, 20th August 2024). Presentation: “Enclosion à la ferme”.
  2. AIAB organised a Technical day in Talmassons (Italy, 21st June 2024). Read more.
  3. AIAB organised a Technical day in Pulicaro farm located in Acquapendente (Italy, 29th May 2024). Read more.
  4. AIAB organised a Technical day in Casa Caponetti farm located in Tuscania (Italy, 16th April 2024). Read more.
  5. ITAB and INRAE organized a Technical day on layers within the “Journée technique poules pondeuses: pratiques innovantes pour les éleveurs” in Les Achards (France, 11th -12th April 2024). Presentations: 1) “Introduction de la journée et du projet PPILOW” (INRAE); 2) “ Ovosexage: Etat des lieux, limites et opportunités” (INRAE); 3) “Evaluation des performances de trois souches à double fin comme alternative à l’élimination des poussins males” (ITAB and Thuenen); 4) “Formation participative sur le picage” (ITAB); 5) “Application EBENE” (ITAVI). Also, a “Atelier participatif sur le picage (a participatory workshop on feather pecking)” was organized (ITAB).
  6. BioForum and CRA-W organised a Technical day in José Metsu’s farm located in Poperinge (Belgium, 29th March 2024). Oral communication “Stratégies et leviers techniques pour un meilleur bien-être des porcs. Résultats PPILOW: élevage de porcs mâles non castrés” (based on INRAE results). Read more.

2023

  1. Webinar Eclosion à la ferme – (30th November 2023) – ITAVI, INRAE participation.
  2. Tech&Bio 2023 in Valencia (Spain, 20th September 2023). ITAB presentation: “Les souches de volailles à double fin: késako ?”.
  3. Meeting of Slow Food, VSF, Romanian pig farmers, Italian technicians from ARI (Italian Rural Association), AIAB and Federbio in Bra (Italy, 17th September 2023) with the national commissioner appointed by the Italian government to deal with PSA (African swine fever). At the end of the meeting the commissioner invited SlowFood and VSF to join the national steering cabin for psa management.
  4. SPACE 2023 in Rennes (France, 14thSeptember 2023). Presentations: 1) “Des innovations pour améliorer le bien-être des porcs et des volailles en systèmes d’élevage biologiques et de plein air” (INRAE); 2) “Les souches de volailles à double fin : késako ?” (ITAB).
  5. SlowFood and VFS organized, during their annual congress, a roundtable on “Assessing Risk in Context: Biosecurity Measures, Animal Welfare Requirements and Sustainability for Rural Farming” (open to the public) in Fano (Italy, 20th May 2023). It was important to disseminate One Welfare approach in the Italian veterinarian network (49 participants: veterinarians and directors of Italian Ministry of Public Health) and to focus a new great problem for the Animal Welfare in extensive pig farms not only in Italy but also in UE.
  6. SlowFood organized 3 technical days and trainings with the help of VSF in 2023 to disseminate between chain actors the content of the PPILOW project and widespread the PPILOW apps:
    • A workshop for poultry farmers (30 participants) in Malborghetto (Italy, 11th – 12th May 2023). Following the interest found among participating farmers, the Italian network of “slow” poultry farmers was founded. Also, UNIPG collaborated to the organisation of the workshop.
    • A workshop and field visit in Bazna (one of its International Presidia (Romania, 16th – 29th April 2023). Pietro Venezia and Anna Zuliani of VSF carried out training on animal welfare in which the app was also disseminated and the contents of the PPILOW project were communicated to a group of pig breeders and Slow Food members.
    • A workshop in Madia (Italy, 12th February 2023) aimed at a group of 20 pig farmers from its network (but open to all). Pietro Venezia of VSF carried out training on animal welfare in which the app was also disseminated and the contents of the PPILOW project were communicated to a 72 farmers, citizens and Slow Food members of Calabria. Presentation: “Il benessere animale secondo SlowFood”.

2022

  1. Terra Madre in Turin (Italy, 26th September 2022) – meeting with veterinarians of VSF to prepare the trainings scheduled in 2023.