ALL-Ready – The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: preparation phase

The ALL-Ready Pilot Network: Inspiring Examples and Experiences of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures Across Europe and Canad

ICROFS news 3/2010 - newsletter from ICROFS

Contents: - Organic RDD application deadline: 13. September 2010 - DARCOF III project, SEED, finalized - VOA3R project website is published - New project: Transparent Food: Quality & Integrity in Food - Why Danish Organic Farming Policy has been succesful - Quality of foraging material and effect on hens feed intake - Chinese organic export model & a Danish future perspective - The climate heroes of the future? - Course: ‘Organic agriculture in a development perspective’ - Brief news on congresses and publication

Smart Computing and Sensing Technologies for Animal Welfare: A Systematic Review

Animals play a profoundly important and intricate role in our lives today. Dogs have been human companions for thousands of years, but they now work closely with us to assist the disabled, and in combat and search and rescue situations. Farm animals are a critical part of the global food supply chain, and there is increasing consumer interest in organically fed and humanely raised livestock, and how it impacts our health and environmental footprint. Wild animals are threatened with extinction by human induced factors, and shrinking and compromised habitat. This review sets the goal to systematically survey the existing literature in smart computing and sensing technologies for domestic, farm and wild animal welfare. We use the notion of \emph{animal welfare} in broad terms, to review the technologies for assessing whether animals are healthy, free of pain and suffering, and also positively stimulated in their environment. Also the notion of \emph{smart computing and sensing} is used in broad terms, to refer to computing and sensing systems that are not isolated but interconnected with communication networks, and capable of remote data collection, processing, exchange and analysis. We review smart technologies for domestic animals, indoor and outdoor animal farming, as well as animals in the wild and zoos. The findings of this review are expected to motivate future research and contribute to data, information and communication management as well as policy for animal welfare

Virtual Research Environments for Environmental and Earth Sciences: Approaches and Experiences

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are playing an increasingly important role in data centric sciences. Also, the concept is known as Science Gateways in North America where generally the functionality is portal plus workflow deployment and Virtual Laboratories in Australia where the end-user can compose a complete system from the user interface to use of e-Infrastructures by a 'pick and mix' process from the offered assets. The key aspect is to provide an environment wherein the end-user - researcher, policymaker, commercial enterprise or citizen scientist - has available with an integrating interface all the assets needed to achieve their objectives. These aspects are explored through different approaches related to ENVRI

Five Year Issue-Based Review, September 2012: A Comprehensive Study of the Southeast District of University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension

Vision: The Southeast Extension District is a premier provider of research-based information, delivering education ‘… Any time, Any place, Any path, Any pace…’ to multigenerational clientele. An organization with professionals embedded in Nebraska communities that serve to engage the citizenry with their land-grant institution and help them solve complex problems around the important priorities of Food, Fuel, Water, Landscapes, and People. Our vision requires innovation and attaining excellence in every area and at every level of the organization— personnel recruitment and development, curriculum development, program partnerships, external funding, student recruitment, teaching strategies and delivery systems. Extension professionals are highly regarded teachers, recognized for their subject matter competence and teaching excellence. Extension will rapidly migrate to a more robust online teaching environment as we prepare to embrace the educational needs of tomorrows’ clientele. Advances in technology and teaching, coupled with strong relationships with people and research-based information will set Extension apart as a trusted leader. We will be the first resource that Nebraskan’s turn to help solve their individual, family, business, community and regional challenges. 1. Vision and Overview pages 5-8 2. Next Generation Extension page 9 a New Delivery Systems pages 11-14 b Measuring Return on Investments pages 15-19 c Partnerships pages 20-23 d Translational Research pages 24-29 e Staying on the Cutting Edge pages 30-31 3. Agriculture and Science Literacy pages 33-34 a Livestock pages 35-39 b Crops pages 40-43 c Water pages 44-47 d Nutrition pages 48-51 4. SREC Contributions: page 53 IANR Growing a Healthy Future – 2025 Goals a Food Crops pages 55-59 Nutrition pages 60-64 Livestock pages 65-66 b Water Crops & Urban pages 67-68 c People 4-H and Youth pages 69-73 Community Development pages 74-77 Families pages 78-79 d Landscapes pages 80-83 5. SREC Contribution to IANR 2017 Goals page 85 a Student Recruitment Plan pages 87-89 b External Funding and Partnership Opportunities Global Agriculture, Food and Environment Education Center pages 90-92 Growing Kimmel page 93 c Ties to Innovation Campus page 94 d Rural Futures page 95 e SREC Program Priority Requests page 96-99 6. Review Process page 101 a Visiting Team Members page 103 b Site Visit Schedule page 104 c Review Team Members page 105 Program Teams d Questions from SREC Unit page 106 7. Supporting Materials page 109 a Demographics pages 111–117 b Program Maps pages 118-125 Faculty Directory pages 126-129 c Diversity Report page 130 Employee Engagement pages 131-133 d Summary of Grants pages 134-15

CGIAR News - March 2004

March 2004 edition of CGIAR News, an electronic newletters on the CGIAR published by the CGIAR Secretariat

NextFood - Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system

Climate change is a major threat to human wellbeing and planetary health. Rising temperatures already have a severe impact on agriculture, jeopardising food safety and nutrition for millions of people, according to the latest IPCC report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. More frequent and more extreme droughts and floods are causing acute food and water insecurity in several regions of the world and if emissions of climate gases continue to rise, current farmland will become increasingly unsuitable for agriculture. Also, forest production is facing challenges due to rising temperatures with pests and tree deaths severely hampering production potential in some areas.Education plays a key role to meet the threats of climate change and to support a transition to more sustainable production of food and other bio-based products. Education, including transdisciplinary, learner-centred, and challenge-based approaches is an important means to make learners prepared to address links among production, economic, and societal issues with environmental degradation, andbe ready to take responsible action that will contribute to a more sustainable world. By incorporating change-oriented projects and involving a wide variety of stakeholders in the process of learning, students are presented with problems and situations similar to what they will have to deal with later in their professional lives.NextFOOD was initiated in 2018 as a collaborative project bringing together 19 partners in an international network with the aim of designing a research-based learning strategy to enhance learner understanding of complex situations and develop the competencies needed to drive the transition towards more sustainable agri-food and forestry systems (www.Nextfood-project.eu). Central to the project were twelve case studies that involved the implementation of action learning approaches in practice, in the context of courses andprograms related to food, agriculture, and forestry, covering a wide geographical area and different levels of education. Our research interest was to identify and implement strategies to overcome the barriers presented to students, teachers, and institutions engaging in action-oriented education.With this book, where research outcomes and case studies of NextFOOD are briefly presented, we hope to inspire teachers, students and others with a role in education to become a part of the transformation towards student-centred and action-oriented sustainability education