Climate Care Cattle Farming Systems (CCCfarming) Project leader Diāna Ruska Team of project Sarmīte Rancāne Daina Jonkus Lilija Degola Dzidra Kreišmane Adrija Dorbe Duration 2019 - 2023 Research focus 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine Source of funding International project Project partners Wageningen ResearchUniversity FirenzeJustus Liebig University GiessenLithuanian Institute of Animal ScienceScottish Rural University CollegeFrench Livestock Institute de L’ElevageINRA UMR PEGASE8 Farmers from LatviaIITF: Juris Priekulis, Inga GrinfeldeSOC: Kaspars Naglis-Liepa, Arnis Lenerts Description of project The aim of research The aim of the project is to develop climate smart cattle farming systems reducing GHG and ammonia emissions while maintaining the social-economic outlook of the farm business. The tasks of project: Our study will deliver an assessment of the environmental performance of a network of study field farms in eight EU-countries on basis of NPC balance tools and simple emission measurement methodsResearcher–adviser-farmer interaction will be to demonstrate improved performanceExpert groups in each country will evaluate the outcomes and choose practices and techniques that are suitable for evaluation in experimental set-upsSuitable practices and techniques will be screened for their socio-economic robustness and political implications on basis of literature and the collected experimental dataNext, new farm systems will be built by assembling combinations of promising practices and techniques and will be tested on pilot and experimental farms for meeting the goals of this projectTailor made applications will be implemented from regional to individual farm level Results https://cccfarming.eu/about
