Uk Training & Workshop

Wood Hall Hotel & Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, 2-6 December 2019.

Training

Programme available here (PDF document)

Presentations

Cledwyn Thomas - Introduction to iSAGE project

Kim Matthews - Introduction to UK sheep sector challenges and opportunities

Martha Dellar - Modelling the impacts of climate change on European sheep and goat production systems

Stefano Orsini - Case study research design and methods

Emilia Cubero Dudinskaya - Assessing consumer needs and developing new products

David Logue - Sustainable Sheep Management

Marion Johnson, Lisa Arguile - Sustainability: The PG Tool and its use within iSAGE

Marion Johnson, Lisa Arguile - Observations on Biodiversity outcomes from the PG Tool assessments on UK farms

Enrique Sanchez Molano - Modern approaches to animal genetic improvement: novel phenotypes and genetic/genomic analysis

Marja-Liisa Sevón-Aimonen - Development of Sheep systems in Finland and results from iSAGE

Kaie Ahlskog - Sheep production in Finland

Wendy Jones - Participatory approach to Dissemination and Improved Uptake UK case studies for innovation

Sotiria Vouraki - The iSAGE decision support system (DSS)

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Workshop

Programme available here (PDF document)

Presentations

Georgios Arsenos - Welcome to the ISAGE project: UK regional meeting

Duncan Wyatt - Trends in the European Sheep and Goat sector - Production and consumption

Raffaele Zanoli - Strategies to Improve consumer perception and consumption of sheep and goat products

Sharon Peacock - British Meat Goats

Cledwyn Thomas - Environmental Impacts and livelihoods

Tony Waterhouse - Upland Britain Complex relationships of sheep numbers and systems with biodiversity and landscapes

Steve Peel - Public money for public goods

Agustin Del Prado - Regional challenges to the UK sheep sector (including impacts on Greenhouse Gas emissions from sheep systems)

Phil Stocker - Challenges facing UK sheep farming

Giorgios Arsenos, Marion Johnson, Wendy Jones - Innovation strategies – recommendations from the iSAGE farm case studies

Georgios Banos, Enrique Sanchez-Molano - Breeding strategies to enhance animal resilience