Abstract
In order to deal with the effects of globalization, urbanization, increase in world population, global warming, and climate change; and according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 targets, which aim to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, it is urgently needed to transform our agriculture and livestock farming systems by taking into account the environmental considerations. The Breeding and management practices of indigenous bovine breeds: Solutions towards a sustainable future (BOVISOL) project is a scientific cooperation between three Mediterranean countries (Greece, Tunisia and Algeria) supported and funded by the European Commission under the European Research Area Networks (ERA-NET) scheme of the 7th Framework Programme. This project has been formed around the hypothesis that the local bovine breeds must be preserved since they possess a valuable genetic pool, and they are a part of the landscape and the biodiversity of rural areas. Moreover, their products (milk, cheese, meat, etc.) could contribute significantly to the local economies as they could easily be associated with recent food trends like “local” and “slow food”, which are considered today, as, not only a mean of nutrition, but also a way of living and a part of people’s identity. BOVISOL project aims to: (i) identify the local breeds and populations in a national level, (ii) describe the existing farm and breeding practices, (iii) analyze the quality of the main local animal products, (iv) propose solutions that will promote the sustainability of the traditional farming systems, especially nowadays that climate change proposes new challenges on animal production, and (v) disseminate the solutions on all the levels of the sector (farmers, scientists, local communities, governmental agencies).
Highlights
In 2015, world leaders adopted a blueprint towards 2030; it comprises 17 interconnected SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs) to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the globalincluding challenges, including related to poverty, inequality, hunger, global challenges, those related those to poverty, inequality, climate change,climate hunger,change, environmental environmentalpeace, degradation, peace, and justice
Hunger) aims to (a) end hunger and improve nutrition, (b) promote sustainable agriculture and double agriculture and double the productivity andfood incomes of small-scale producers, and (c) maintain the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers, and (c) food maintain the genetic diversity of the genetic diversity of and seeds, cultivated plants, and animals farmed and domesticated animals and seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated and their related wild species
Summary
In 2015, world leaders adopted a blueprint towards 2030; it comprises 17 interconnected Sustainable. Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all They address the globalincluding challenges, including related to poverty, inequality, hunger, global challenges, those related those to poverty, inequality, climate change,climate hunger,change, environmental environmentalpeace, degradation, peace, and justice (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/). Mediterranean (ARIMNet) bears the ambition toMediterranean enhance and improve coordination of agricultural research programmes and cooperation within the area. ARIMNet funded programs were undertaken in order to face a number of common problems linked directly to agriculture research programs were undertaken in order to face a number of common problems linked directly and food security Their main context is the use and management of natural resources, such as soil and to agriculture and food security.
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