Rumires project participatory workshop in Seville

Original Source: Interempresas

The facilities of the School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville (ETSIA) hosted a participatory workshop organized within the framework of the Rumires project: ‘Strengthening the resilience of small ruminant livestock systems of local breeds: from COVID-19 to global change’.

With an attendance of twenty people, with profiles related to the livestock sector, civil society, consumers and public administrations, the participants discussed, on the one hand, future strategies to ensure the viability of the activity in the medium and long term and, on the other hand, the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on the resilience of the sector, in terms of robustness, adaptability and transformation capacity.

CEIGRAM-UPM is one of the six partners in this project. Leading the policy activity of the participatory workshop in Seville was Bárbara Soriano. The objective of this activity was to assess how the Common Agricultural Policy contributes to the resilience of small ruminant livestock systems.

The results will be analyzed in depth together with those obtained in similar workshops held in Cáceres, Vitoria and soon in Zaragoza. Together with the rest of the activities developed by the team of researchers involved in the project, all this information will be useful to analyze how small ruminant farmers perceive and respond to unexpected events and to define strategies that favor decision making at farm and livestock system level.

The project is led by the Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA) and has the participation of several institutions, including, on behalf of Andalusia, the University of Seville itself and the Andalusian Federation of Purebred Goat Breed Associations (Cabrandalucía).

The autonomous community of Andalusia, with its native breeds as protagonists, is the main European goat milk producing territory. With more than 7,000 dairy goat farms and a production of around 200 million liters of milk, 44% of the national total, the sector has an enormous economic, environmental and social importance in the territory where it develops its activity.