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Sm@RT: small ruminant technology – PLF and digital technology for small ruminants
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Edité par CCSD ; Wageningen Academic Publishers -
International audience. Rural economies across Europe, and associated countries, heavily rely on small ruminant (SR) systems, particularly in areas unsuitable for other agriculture livestock production systems. Despite recent advances in precision livestock farming (PLF) and digital technologies (DT) to facilitate farm management, there is a slow rate of uptake by SR producers. This paper presents the project Sm@RT, which aims to improve the understanding, awareness and uptake of different technologies currently available to the SR sector, and further to facilitate ‘solutions to needs’ and identification of technology gaps. Sm@RT focus is on the use of PLF and DT across all types of sheep and goat management systems and environments, to develop a long-term, self-sustainable European/International network to encouragethe use of PLF and DT across the sectors. Eight countries (UK, Ireland, Norway, Estonia, France, Italy, Hungary, Israel) are involved in Sm@rt. The paper presents the original project’s approach: an interactive transdisciplinary and multi-actor approach relying on well-equipped demonstration farms (‘digifarms’) and innovative commercial farms to foster exchanges within the SR industry. It is an iterative step-by-step approach to engage relevant actors from all stakeholder groups at the appropriate level in the knowledge exchange process, crucial to boost dissemination in a trusting environment. Sm@RT will create opportunities to collect and exchange technical and practical knowledge, with information and guidelines on how to use PLF and DT to gain the best benefits for SR systems of production. This will increase efficiency and sustainability of SR farming systems in Europe and beyond.
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