Propagating innovations for more resilient dairy farming in the Atlantic Area

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2023-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

Dairy production is an important economic activity in Atlantic Area. With expanding dairy production, among world leaders, faces market volatility and climatic hazards and the need for more efficient use of natural resources to improve competitiveness. From Scotland to Azores, The Dairy-4-Future project aims to increase the competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of dairy farms through the development of innovative and efficient dairy systems and increased cooperation between R&D stakeholders groups. This project will mainly focus on propagating dairy systems blueprints able to withstand an increased volatility in milk prices and climatic hazards, preserving natural resources and mitigating climate change while offering social performances in line with consumer demands, and better added value. The consortium will: (i) jointly analyze economic, societal and environmental metrics to identify innovative and more efficient dairy systems; (ii) evaluate ecosystem services offered by dairy production (employment, biodiversity, landscape…); (iii) identify, study and disseminate on success stories in the value chain (farmers, dairy industry); (iv) share and test innovations and innovative dairy systems; (v) propose recommendations and incentive measures for regional policies; (vi) prepare a framework for an increased cooperation between stakeholders.

Achievements (EN):

The Atlantic Area has many territorial assets for dairy production: ideal soil and climatic conditions, landscape, infrastructure and processing capacity, large and skilled agricultural population, supported by efficient research and innovation organisations. From Scotland to the Azores, DAIRY4FUTURE aims to increase competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of dairy farms in the Atlantic Area. Its objective is to identify, evaluate and then widely propagate innovative practices to European dairy technicians and farmers through transnational seminars or farm open days, publications, videos, or training tools. DAIRY4FUTURE focuses on four key issues: analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the dairy sector, foster dairy sector economic resilience, improve resource use efficiency, and determine sustainable dairy systems for the future. The project puts innovative farmers at the centre of practicebased research work and combines several methods (SWOT analysis, research activities, economic simulations) to adapt and develop scientific knowledge, which will lead to technical solutions and recommendations to be shared across the network. DAIRY4FUTURE project involves 12 Atlantic regions from 5 countries, representing 20% of EU28 milk production and 100 000 farmers working in a wide diversity of milk production systems. The project is on a course to reduce production costs for dairy farmers (-10%), to reduce the carbon footprint of milk (-20%), and better fitting civil society’s needs and market strategies. As a result, the project is contributing to regional public policies with increased impact on value chain efficiency and improved regional cohesion. "Since the beginning of DAIRY4FUTURE,our group of French pilot farmers has had the opportunity to meet on several occasions to discover or learn more about the dairy sector in the different regions of the Atlantic Area. Our meetings allowed us to visit our respective farms, present our breeding systems, and share our work methods, and even to transfer or test practices on our respective farms. We were also able to visit the experimental farms involved in the project, discuss the trials conducted and most importantly present our expectations and needs”. Jean-Pierre Morille Dairy farmers in Pays de la Loire – Representing the French Pilot Farms Network of the Dairy 4 Future Project.

Website: http://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The main expected result is an improved business and environment framework for cooperation, facilitating the transfer of innovations. In the end, the project aims at a more resilient, efficient, sustainable and competitive dairy value chain, achieving 10% reduction in costs, 20% reduction in carbon footprint, better fitting civil society’s needs and market strategies; and a well informed regional public policies with increased impact on value chains efficiency and improved regional cohesion.

Expected Outputs (EN):

• 10 "qualified value chains" cases studies; • 50 open days in innovative farms, 10 in centers of innovation; • 20 dairy blueprints oriented to markets; • 20 technical & scientific publications, lectures; • 1 digital dissemination strategy; • 5 regional milk policy & industry roadmaps; • 10 lectures to dairy industries per country; • 1 summer university (farmers, industries, advisors, development); • 1 network of dairy journalists; • 10 regional conferences and 1 final seminar.

Thematic information

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Strengthening the transfer of innovation results to facilitate the emergence of new products, services and processes

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Institut de l'Elevage

Address: Rennes, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 721 610.00

ERDF budget: EUR 541 207.50

Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Universidade de Lisboa

Name: Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Universidade de Lisboa

Address: Lisboa, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 255 760.00

ERDF budget: EUR 191 820.00

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Name: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Address: Vila Real, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 281 975.00

ERDF budget: EUR 211 481.25

NEIKER, Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development

Name: NEIKER, Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development

Address: Derio, Spain

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 285 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 214 125.00

Chambre d'Agriculture de Bretagne

Name: Chambre d'Agriculture de Bretagne

Address: Rennes, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 314 300.00

ERDF budget: EUR 235 725.00

Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement (LBE)

Name: Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement (LBE)

Address: Lusignan, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 144 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 108 375.00

Teagasc - Agriculture and Food Development Authority

Name: Teagasc - Agriculture and Food Development Authority

Address: Fermoy, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 475 172.00

ERDF budget: EUR 356 379.00

Instituto Galego de Calidade Alimentaria

Name: Instituto Galego de Calidade Alimentaria

Address: Boqueixón, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 330 475.00

ERDF budget: EUR 247 856.25

College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise

Name: College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise

Address: Antrim, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 368 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 276 075.00

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Name: Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Address: Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 361 640.00

ERDF budget: EUR 271 230.00

Scotland's Rural College

Name: Scotland's Rural College

Address: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 360 120.00

ERDF budget: EUR 270 090.00

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Summary

Project name (PT): Propagar inovações para um sector leiteiro mais resiliente no Espaço Atlântico

Project name (ES): Difusión de innovaciones para una ganadería lechera más resiliente en la zona Atlántica

Project name (EN): Propagating innovations for more resilient dairy farming in the Atlantic Area

Project name (FR): Diffuser les innovations pour un élevage laitier résilient dans l'Espace Atlantique

Project acronym: Dairy-4-Future

Project start date: 2018-01-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 899 152.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 924 364.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 924 364.00.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

External factors effecting the profitability of dairy farms in the Atlantic Area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://dairy4future.eu/economic-success-of-dairy-farms-what-are-the-issues-for-farmers-in-the-atlantic-area/

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-05-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

AKIS report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://dairy4future.eu/reports/

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Integrating economic development with environmental sustainability

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://dairy4future.eu/reports/

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

External factors effecting the profitability of dairy farms in the Atlantic Area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://dairy4future.eu/reports/

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-05-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Approach of differentiation strategies on dairy farms in the Atlantic area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://dairy4future.eu/case-studies-synthesis/

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-08-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

718 / 718 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.atlanticarea.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2023-02-02 and 2024 01 30. Fields project name and description (from 23 projects) translated from Spanish into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: @BluePortS, 4H-CREAT, ACCESS2SEA, AGEO, AGRITOX, ALERTOX-NET, AtlanticFoodExport, ATLANTIC-KET-MED, AT-VIRTUAL, AYCH, CABFishMAN, CircularSeas, COCKLES, CONSORTEX, FAN-BEST, iFADO, IN 4.0, JONAS, MONITOOL, NANOCULTURE, PROTOATLANTIC, SIRMA and USER-FACTOR.

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