Cattle and Minor Species Innovation Network

Manager

Hernando Florez Diaz CRIS AGROSAVIA

Scope

Contribute to the modernization, transformation, and efficiency of livestock production systems through a landscape-based approach, by fostering coordination among agri-food system stakeholders, value chains, and public policies. This effort aims to generate and integrate high-impact technologies that are resilient, competitive, socially and environmentally responsible, and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Goals

1. 🌿  Promote the sustainability of the foundational resources of livestock agroecosystems through a landscape approach that enhances their productive capacity, resilience, efficiency in resource use, and helps to mitigate and adapt to climate change and variability, while also contributing to biodiversity protection and the sustainability of rural populations, through a transition to agroecology in harmony with the environment.

2. 🌾 Develop and implement sustainable forage production systems that support soil restoration, improve the nutritional quality of animal diets, and contribute to the production of higher-yielding, compositionally superior and more competitive products.

3. 🐑 Identify, evaluate, and integrate locally adapted animal populations to obtain differentiated livestock products that meet the demands of national and international consumers, positioning them as key drivers of regional economies.

4. 🧪 Develop, validate, and integrate technologies in reproduction, animal health, animal welfare, and processing, which together contribute to livestock production with quality and safety, ensuring food security and sovereignty, and promoting ecosystem health under a One Health and One Welfare approach.

5. 🚀 Incorporate innovation strategies in the development and validation of processes that foster the generation of added value and enhance the competitiveness of livestock agri-food systems.

6. 👥 Strengthen capacity building, social engagement, knowledge management and social appropriation, and promote the reconnection and reinvestment of human, social, and environmental capital into livestock agroecosystems.

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Highlighted Initiatives

Second Knowledge Exchange Session Between AGROSAVIA Staff and Japanese Universities

A new delegation of researchers from the Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research – AGROSAVIA is once again heading to Japan to participate in a new training course, as part of the joint knowledge generation program under the SATREPS Livestock Project – Creation of a Beef Cattle Value Chain through Optimization of the Rumen Microbiome and Forage Management Using a Digital Platform.

More information: Second Knowledge Exchange Session 

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