creators_name: Vaarst, Mette
creators_name: Nissen, Thorkild B.
creators_name: Christensen, jens
creators_name: Klaas, Ilka
creators_name: Bennedsgaard, Torben W.
creators_name: Østergaard, Søren
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-05-09
lastmod: 2009-09-09 13:40:09
metadata_visibility: show
title: ’Stable Schools’ as a concept for animal health and welfare promotion
ispublished: pub
subjects: 7animalhealth
full_text_status: public
abstract: The concept of Farmer Field Schools was implemented in a group of Danish organic dairy farms in order to support the process of reaching a common goal among the farmers of phasing out antibiotics from their herds. The results from the herds indicate that crucial changes took place during the project period of approximately one year. We suggest that this is due to the combination of the farmer group’s ownership over the common goal in combination with the individual goals of each farmer. This formed a motivation for improvements on all farms. The encouraging process of seeing successful development in colleagues’ farms together with the advice received from the group formed basis for a strong common learning process .   
date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: Vaarst, Mette; Nissen, Thorkild B.; Christensen, jens; Klaas, Ilka; Bennedsgaard, Torben W. and Østergaard, Søren (2006) ’Stable Schools’ as a concept for animal health and welfare promotion. Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8251/1/Vaarst-stable-schools.doc