title: Performance of organic and low input livestock systems: a matter of sound design? 
creator: Spoolder, Hans
creator: Biavati, Bruno
creator: Borgsteede, Fred
creator: Davies, David
creator: Klocke, Peter
creator: Maurer, Veronika
creator: Nagel, Philip
creator: Nicholas, Phillipa
creator: van Krimpen, Marinus
creator: Mejer, Helena
creator: Modesto, Monica
creator: Strozzi, Gian  Paolo
creator: Thamsborg, Stig Milan
creator: Vermeer, Herman
creator: Wagenaar, Jan-Paul
creator: Zollitsch, Werner
creator: Sundrum, Albert
subject:  Health and welfare
description: The QLIF project has targeted a variety of issues to make organic animal production (dairy cattle, pig, poultry) more safe, develop alternative methods to promote animal health and improve product quality. This workshop will discuss these aims as well as the QLIF achievements to date. It will also address our way of assessing the quality of our organic farms. We ask the question what the advantages are of doing this by looking at the output of a farm, such as yield, animal welfare and environmental issues. Alternatively, we also want to know what benefits there are in looking at how the farm is organised, via input factors such as housing design, nutrition, management quality. Two invited speakers will state their preference. Legislation, certification and consumer perceptions wil be addressed.
date: 2008
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: rtf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/13351/2/qlif-workshop4-abstract-spoolder-etal-2008-livestock-systems.doc
format: rtf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/13351/3/qlif-workshop4-4p-spoolder-etal-2008-livestock-systems.doc
identifier: Spoolder, Hans; Biavati, Bruno; Borgsteede, Fred; Davies, David; Klocke, Peter; Maurer, Veronika; Nagel, Philip; Nicholas, Phillipa; van Krimpen, Marinus; Mejer, Helena; Modesto, Monica; Strozzi, Gian Paolo; Thamsborg, Stig Milan; Vermeer, Herman; Wagenaar, Jan-Paul; Zollitsch, Werner and Sundrum, Albert (2008) Performance of organic and low input livestock systems: a matter of sound design? 4th QLIF Congress in the Frame of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress and the 2nd ISOFAR Conference, Modena, Italy, June 19-20, 2008. [ Unpublished, ]
relation: http://orgprints.org/13351/