Kuipers Abele, Østergaard Søren, Loges Ralf, Zijlstra Jelle, Brocard Valerie
Livestock Research, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 WD Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark.
Animals (Basel). 2024 Oct 17;14(20):2991. doi: 10.3390/ani14202991.
The objective of the EU project Resilience for Dairy (R4D) is to develop and strengthen a self-sustainable Thematic Network on resilient dairy farms in 15 European countries. This article focusses on those solutions (practices and techniques) that are assessed contributing to a resilient dairy farming sector. The opinions of experts, farmers, and stakeholders were collected and scored through surveys and in a series of local workshops. Six key contributing knowledge fields are included: economic and social resilience, technical efficiency, environment, animal welfare and health, and societal perception. Assessing these knowledge fields proved to be a good predictor for measuring resilience. Only the impact fields of animal welfare and health and societal perception overlapped each other in response. This study shows differences in the choice of solutions across Europe. Experts from South and East Europe are more positive about the contribution of solutions to resilience than their colleagues from North and West Europe, except for social life items. Expert and farmer/stakeholder opinions differ regarding several of the solutions. Technical efficiency is a leading strategy. Priority topics of interest are communication with society, renewable energy production, strategic hoof trimming, early detection of diseases, monitoring fertility and health, and calf rearing. Besides resilience, attractiveness and readiness of the solutions were also assessed.
欧盟“乳业韧性”（R4D）项目的目标是在15个欧洲国家建立并加强一个具有自我可持续发展能力的韧性奶牛场主题网络。本文聚焦于那些被评估为有助于实现韧性奶牛养殖部门的解决方案（实践和技术）。通过调查以及一系列当地研讨会收集了专家、农民和利益相关者的意见并进行评分。其中包括六个关键的知识贡献领域：经济和社会韧性、技术效率、环境、动物福利与健康以及社会认知。事实证明，对这些知识领域进行评估是衡量韧性的一个良好预测指标。在反馈中，只有动物福利与健康以及社会认知这两个影响领域相互重叠。这项研究表明欧洲各地在解决方案的选择上存在差异。除了社会生活项目外，来自南欧和东欧的专家对解决方案对韧性的贡献比来自北欧和西欧的同事更为乐观。在一些解决方案上，专家与农民/利益相关者的意见存在分歧。技术效率是一项主导策略。感兴趣的优先主题包括与社会的沟通、可再生能源生产、战略性蹄部修剪、疾病早期检测、繁殖力和健康监测以及犊牛饲养。除了韧性，还评估了这些解决方案的吸引力和可行性。
