The presentations and results of the international conference about “Livestock Futures” held in Bonn on 6th and 7th September are now on line and can be downloaded here. More candid photos from the conference by Gemma Julia have been uploaded here.

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A paper about LPP’s “Ark of Biodiversity” project that is supported by the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermes was presented during the IFOAM Conference on Organic Animal Husbandry held in Hamburg from 12-14th September. It clearly states that locally adapted breeds are the foundation for “green” and ecological livestock development. The presentation is available here.

On the day after the Livestock Futures Conference, several of the speakers and participants joined German and European shepherds at the national sheepdog competition that took place in Duisburg-Walsum. Despite language barriers they discovered many commonalities and exchnged experiences with respect to electronic sheep identification – an EU legal requirement that is causing quite a few hardships, as Hilary Liebeschuetz from the Shetland Islands described.

The group also discussed their concerns with Friedrich Ostendorff, member of the German parliament and deputy chair of the German Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture.