Management strategies to improve herd resilience and efficiency by harnessing the adaptive capacities of small ruminants (2019-2023)
The project Adapt-Herd will develop management simulation tools to implement and design innovative strategies for resilience and efficiency in small ruminants herds, based on harnessing animal adaptive capacities. These tools will address the current feed resource constraints in the Mediterranean area (Egypt, France, Spain, Tunisia) but also the future perturbations induced by climate change.
This project, part of the PRIMA program supported by European Union and a consortium of Mediterranean countries, is led by a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of livestock farming systems, animal nutrition, genetics, modellling and statistics from INRAE (MoSAR, GenPhyse and SELMET), APRI, CITA, INRAT, ESAK and CIRAD (SELMET).