Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Koluman N. (Yürütücü)
UFUK 2020 Projesi, 2022 - 2025
The key objective of PASTINNOVA is to re-enforce the
sustainability, profitability and resilience of small
pastoral farms, by setting up innovations, business and
organizational models (IBM) to valorise their full
potential as drivers towards agro-ecological transition in
livestock production. PASTINNOVA examines pastoral
systems which – despite the multiple challenges they face
- are able to provide a broad array of ecosystem services
(ES) along with high-quality products (dairy, meat, wool
and processed) in a variety of agro-ecological and socioeconomic Mediterranean settings. The project proposes a
holistic interdisciplinary approach to improve the weak
positioning of pastoral smallholders in Value Chains of
Pastoral products (VCP), with particular focus on
vulnerable groups (e.g. women, young farmers, migrant
workers). Based on the Living Laboratories (LL)
approach, a common network on “Pastoral actors and
VCP” will be established to co-create solutions for farmer
organizations, farm management and VCP through the
integration of needs, capacities and experiences of actors
(e.g. farmers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, retailers,
policy makers, researchers). Selected IBM will be tested
and implemented in small-scale and assessed for their
sustainability (economic, social, environmental). This way, PASTINNOVA will deliver upscaled, accessible and profitable IBM adapted to the characteristics of
Mediterranean pastoralists and territories and propose a supportive policy framework and arrangements for access to
markets. PASTINNOVA envisages to upscale the role of pastoralism by pooling a rich variety of existing resources
of project partners, their experience and networks, including the outputs of numerous pastoral-related projects.