Cooperation Offer

innovation in agriculture / gardening

Offer name: 
innovation in agriculture / gardening
Expiry date: 
30/09/2020
Offering LAG: 
Lëtzebuerg West
Country:
  • Luxembourg
Spoken languages:
  • néerlandais - anglais - français - allemand

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner: 

Local producers, farmers, Farmers associations, LAG,
etc.

Country(ies):
  • Union européenne
Type of area:
  • Rural

Project idea

Project type:
    • Transnational cooperation
    • With other MSs (no shared border)
Project topic:
    • Innovation
    • Research & Development
    • New technologies
    • Agriculture & Farming
    • Small farms
    • Knowledge transfer / education / training activities
Additional keywords:
  • new equipement, animal welfare, improving the quality of draft animals, local renewable energy
Context: 

It has been noted that in the EU conventional farming and market gardening are increasingly challenged, taking into account their effects on the environment and the overexploitation of natural resources. In order to be able to launch alternative ideas to these practices, we consider for small farms to be reoriented to animal traction. Indeed, unlike fossil or solar energy, animal traction is the only energy that is locally renewable and unique in the world.

Project idea summary: 

- promote research on the welfare of draft animals
- develop new equipment for animal traction
- produce publications dealing with equipment for animal traction and the welfare of draft animals
- actively engage in knowledge transfer to improve the living and working conditions of draft animals

Objectives: 

- Networking of different actors for development, construction andfield trials of new animal-drawn equipment
- Technical support for small farms and gardeners
- Promote regional organic food production