INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
EXTENSIVE LIVESTOCK FARMING
AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Pastoralism, or extensive livestock farming, is key for food production, provision of ecosystem services and land and resources management. Its intimate relationship with the concerned landscapes offers two different and complementary perspectives related to climate action. On the one hand, as it is carried out outdoors, it is very sensitive to climatic conditions, especially changes and extreme events; on the other hand, as one of the main available tools to managing vegetation and uncultured soils, it plays a vital role in adapting our ecosystems to these same processes of change, also contributing climate mitigation by increasing their carbon storage capacity and reducing emissions.
Unfortunately, the impact of climate change on pastoralism is currently outweighing its potential for climate action. Consequently, many farms are experiencing real hardship to survive in a context of high temperatures, intense droughts, water scarcity and extreme events. This situation represents a double loss for society, for starters, seeing the weakening of a key source of food based on spontaneous plant material and then, losing the skills to manage woodlands and prevent disasters linked to misuse and climate change: abandonment, desertification or forest fires.
This congress aims to catalyse a radical change in the relationship between extensive livestock farming and climate change, through innovative, global and consensual approaches that provide a comprehensive vision combining 1) producer´s knowledge and scientific research in the search for solutions, 2) adaptation and mitigation of climate change both territories and livestock farming sector, 3) policies and direct action in the support and implementation of solutions, and 4) the involvement of the whole of society in an essential activity to deal with global change.
The Life Live-ADAPT project would like to invite farmers, researchers, technicians, professionals and public servants to join us and share the most advanced knowledge, the most innovative proposals and the most successful experiences available at the moment. We also invite you to reflect collectively on the way forward, the role of the different actors involved and the policies that can support these developments. We have tried to bring together the people who currently know the most, fight the hardest and understand the better, the relationship between climate processes and pastoralism, from livestock farmers to professors. We will try to use their wisdom as a driver of change to promote sustainable, top-quality livestock farming, which should be capable of facing the great challenges of our time, including climate change and apathy.
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The International Congress on Extensive Livestock Farming and Climate Change will be held in the Rectorate Hall of the University of Cordoba on 18, 19 and 20 October. Virtual participation will be possible thanks to the live broadcast. Online participants are expected to ask questions to the speakers, make comments on the different thematic tables and/or share resources, experiences or own initiatives.
Presentations will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous translation for attendees in person and online. In order to participate both online and in person, participants must register using the following form:
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PROGRAMME
18 OCTOBER
19:30 / Screening of the project’s videos – Presentation by Víctor Casas of the videos generated.
19 OCTOBER
09:00 – 09:30 / Registration + Networking welcome
09:30 – 09:45 / Institutional welcome
- Vicente Rodríguez Estévez (Project LIFE LiveAdapt coordinator ) / Universidad de Córdoba
- Maria E. Fernández-Gimenez / Colorado State University
- Olivier Maurin / CORAM – Chair of the European Regional Support Group of the IYRP
- Monte Orodea / Ganaderas en Red
- Michele Nori / PASTRES (European University Institute)
11:00 – 11:30 / Coffee break / Posters and workshop
11:30 – 13:00 / Block I – Pastures and carbon footprint
- Mireia Llorente (Moderator) / FENT (Fundación Entretantos)
- Rubén Serrano / BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change
- Jorge M. Lobo / Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales – CSIC
- David Yáñez / EEZ – CSIC
- Ramiro Oliveri / Subdirección General de Aire Limpio y Sostenibilidad Industrial
- Gerardo Moreno / Universidad de Extremadura
13:00 – 15:00 / Networking lunch / Posters and workshop
15:00 – 16:30 / Block II – Water management
- Patricia Mora (Moderator) / Innogestiona Ambiental
- Rafael Muñoz / Livestock farmer, pilot farm of LIFE LiveAdapt proyect
- Francisco Javier Viseas / Oficina de planificación Hidrológica C.H.G.
- José María Martín Civantos / Universidad de Granada
- Carmen Bendala / Ganaderas en Red
- Nuria Hernández-Mora / Universidad Complutense de Madrid – I – Cisk project
16:30 – 17:00 / Coffee break / Posters and workshop
17:00 – 18:30 / Block III – Governance, policy and CAP
- María Pía Sánchez (Moderator) / FEDEHESA
- Jabier Ruiz / WWF – European Policy Office
- Pedro María Herrera / FENT – Fundación Entretantos
- Teresa Pinto / Universidade de Évora
- Tamara Rodríguez / SEO BirdLife – Por otra PAC
21:00 / Networking dinner
20 OCTOBER
09:00 – 09:30 / Registration + Networking welcome
- Pedro Arrojo / United Nations
09:30 – 10:00 / Institutional policies
- Mireia Llorente (Moderator) / FENT (Fundación Entretantos)
- Paulo Canaveira / Agencia Portuguesa de Medio Ambiente
- Lorena Rodríguez Lucero /Ex-alcaldesa de Arcaboso
- Irene de Miguel Pérez / Asamblea de Extremadura
10:00 – 11:30 / Block IV – Digitalisation and business models
- María Aparicio (Moderator) / Pigchamp Pro Europa
- Juanma Intxaurrandieta / INTIA S.A.
- Álvaro Barrera / ECOVALIA
- Fernando María Vicente / Universidad de Salamanca
- Adrián Almazán / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Ecologistas en Acción
11:30 – 12:00 / Coffee break / Posters and workshop
12:00 – 13:30 / Block V – Animal health and welfare
- Rafael Zafra (Moderator) / Universidad de Córdoba
- João Simões / Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
- Oscar García / Independent Veterinary
- María del Carmen García / Junta de Andalucía
- Olivier Maurin / CORAM
- Telmo Nunes / Universidad de Lisboa
13:30 – 14:00 / Closing of the congress
- Vicente Rodríguez Estévez / Project LIFE LiveAdapt coordinator – Universidad de Córdoba
14:00 – 15:30 / Networking lunch / Poster and workshop
15:30 – 17:30 / Open day: Pilot Farm Dehesa de Campo Alto
17:30 – 18:30 / Final remarkAsam
THEMATICS AREAS
Keynote speech
Vicente Rodríguez
UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA
Vicente Rodríguez-Estévez holds a PhD in Veterinary Medicine and is Associate Professor of Animal Production at the University of Córdoba, is Director of the Enterprise-University Chair Ecovalia-Clemente Mata of Organic Livestock Farming since its creation in 2013, and coordinates the project LIFE LiveAdapt.
Olivier Maurin
CORAM - Chair of the European Regional Support Group of the IYRP
Shepherd, I raise 250 ewes, 150 pigs and 10 oxen all of local breeds on a transhumant system. I am also president of the dairy sheep breeds of the Pyrenees and we are carrying out a lot of genetic work to adapt our animals to the various changes we are experiencing, both climatic and economic. I am also president of an association that defends pastoral systems at the national level.
María Fernández
Colorado State University
Dr. Fernández-Giménez works closely with ranching and pastoralist communities in the western US, Spain and Mongolia to support sustainable and equitable rangeland management through knowledge co-production and research. She studies how ranchers/pastoralists make decisions, individually and collectively, and how their decisions affect the resilience of rangeland social-ecological systems. Her recent work focuses on women’s roles in conserving, transforming and abandoning extensive pastoral systems.
MONTE ORODEA
GANADERAS EN RED
Extensive cattle rancher of beef cattle and Iberian pigs in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla. She studied agricultural expert and when her father passed away she took the reins of the family livestock. She has worked in companies in the area combining it with livestock management, but this is where she feels full and proud of her work. She belongs to Ganaderas en Red and SOMOS Sierra Norte de Sevilla, two groups of which she always boasts for the good work they do to give light to the work of both women and young people in livestock and in the villages.
MICHELE NORI
PASTRES (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE)
Michele Nori is a Tropical Agronomist (University of Florence – IT) with a further specialisation in Rural Sociology (PhD at Wageningen University – NL) and a specific expertise on the livelihood systems of pastoral communities.
Block I / Pastures and carbon footprint
The combination of pasture management and the climate responsibility of extensive livestock farming is triggering debates on the C balance of this activity, as a GHG source or mitigator of climate change, which is particularly relevant in terms of differentiation from other production models.
Herbaceous and woody pastures, wooded pastures and grazed forests store large amounts of carbon in the soil, constituting one of the largest sinks for carbon sequestration in the long term. Therefore, the sustainable management of pastures and their use by extensive livestock farming, is essential in terms of climate change mitigation.
Presentations in this block deepen knowledge of the capacity of soils and pastures to sequester carbon and link this sequestration to livestock management, so that calculation of the carbon footprint takes into account not only the emissions from livestock farming, but also the capacity of the supporting ecosystems to sequester atmospheric CO2 depending on the management model used.
Mireia Llorente
FENT - FUNDACIÓN ENTRETANTOS
Biologist and PhD on Sustainable Use of Forest System (University of Valladolid, Spain). Their fields of research are the soil management impact on the environment, soil fertility, extensive livestock farming systems and C cycling. Currently, she works in Fundación Entretantos.
RUBÉN SERRANO
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change
Researcher on ecology and anthropology of livestock systems. He works in the reconsideration of the nature of environmental impacts attributed to pastoralism. His approach includes the estimation of baselines from wild herbivory in absence of livestock activity.
JORGE M. LOBO
MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES - CSIC
Researcher at CSIC since 2001. His scientific interest is focused on the description of biodiversity patterns, the delimitation of the processes that generate them and the drawbacks and possibilities of biodiversity databases. Working on the ecology of dung beetles, he has developed several investigations on the functions of these organisms in grassland biomes and the implications of their decline for the maintenance of these ecosystems.
DAVID YÁÑEZ
EEZ - CSIC
Degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Cordoba (1997) and PhD in Animal Production at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC, 2003). His main area os expertise is the development of nutritional strategies to reduce enteric methane fermentation in ruminants. He is coordinator of the Horizon-Europe project ‘Resilient Livestock’.
Ramiro Oliveri
MITECO - SG de Aire Limpio y Sostenibilidad
Head of Service (SG for Clean Air and Industrial Sustainability, MITECO). Currently working in the area of GHG Emission Inventories to the atmosphere. He is responsible for coordinating and supervising the LULUCF sector (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry). This sector is becoming increasingly important, as it is considered one of the key sectors in the fight against climate change.
GERARDO MORENO
UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA
Professor of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Extremadura. Specialist in Agroforestry Systems; Soil-Plant Relations; Soil Carbon.
Block II / Water management
Access to quality water is the main concern of farmers, who highlight the scarcity of water as the main effect of climate change on extensive livestock farms, affecting both animal health and welfare and sector socioeconomic and environmental sustainability.
Livestock mobility alternatives, rainwater collection, adaptation and modernization of ponds and wells infrastructure or new regulation, are among proposed measures for the adaptation to the new climatic conditions, with increasingly prolonged periods of drought, torrential rains and aquifers in serious danger of salinization and pollution.
Presentations in this thematic block provide a comprehensive approach, beyond the sector itself, as well as innovative solutions that respond to the main needs of the sector, identified during the participatory process of the LIFE LiveAdapt project.
PATRICIA MORA
INNOGESTIONA AMBIENTAL
Bachelor´s Degree in Law from the complutense university of Madrid and a Master’s in international business from the Manchester university With over 20 years´experience in capturing competitive European funds, she is the CEO-Director of Innogestiona Ambiental.
rafael muñoz
livestock farmer - LIFE LiveAdapt pilot farm
Francisco Javier Viseas
Oficina de planificación hidrológica C.H.G.
Civil Engineer, career civil servant of the General State Administration, belonging to the Corps of Civil Engineers of the State. His professional experience has been developed in the Hydrological Planning Office of the Guadiana Hydrographic Confederation since 2008, first as Head of the Hydrological Studies Service and since 2013, as Head of the Planning, Plans and Studies Area. Since then, he has been the director of various contracts related to hydrological planning in the Guadiana, including those related to the Update, Review and Monitoring of the Basin Hydrological Plan, both the second cycle of planning and the third cycle, and other auxiliary contracts related to technical support tasks for hydrological planning.
José María Martín
Universidad de Granada
His field of specialisation is landscape archaeology and Islamic history, with a special focus on the western Mediterranean. He developed his academic career mainly in Spain and Italy, having the opportunity to benefit from interdisciplinary and fruitful research environments, and establishing strong links with the scientific community.
Carmen Bendala
ganaderas en red
Biologist, university lecturer and livestock farmer. She manages the farm "Riscos altos" in the heart of the Sierra Norte de Sevilla. The farm is located in a meadow a few kilometres from Cazalla, and is used for livestock farming, rural tourism and the cultivation of fruit trees, among other things.
nuria hernandez mora
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Is a senior water policy expert with a PhD in Geography from the University of Seville. She has over 25 years of experience in research and consultancy focused on water policy evaluation and design, institutional analysis, public participation and drought risk management. She works with governmental and non-governmental organizations and research institutions on water governance. She is currently working at the Universidad Complutense in a EU-funded project to develop climate services and adaptation strategies for extensive livestock and dryland farmers. She is a founding member of the Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua.
Block III / Governance, policy and CAP
Depopulation and rural development are strongly linked to extensive livestock farming, and require new models of participation and governance in environmental and territorial planning with a bottom-up, multi-actor and territorial approach, with the complicity of regulations at all levels, in line with an essential activity to guarantee food sovereignty, the adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Extensive livestock farming is key for European strategies such as the European Green Pact, Farm to Fork.
Do Strategic Plans respond to the territorial needs of the sector? Does the CAP adequately promote sustainability and the adaptation of extensive livestock farming? What criteria should environmental instruments such as eco-schemes, agri-environmental and climate measures or the protection of livestock breeds articulate?
In order to answer these questions, this thematic block, extensive livestock farming and its associated ecosystem services is analyzed along with innovative political, social and economic support measures that facilitate adaptation and boost the global role of pastoralism in the face of climate change, through tools such as performance-based payments (RBPS) with effective and relevant indicators to enhance knowledge flows in EU AKIS.
María Pía Sánchez
FEDEHESA
Twenty-three years as a bank director. Four years as a Member of Congress. Currently dedicated to livestock farming in a Dehesa and president of the Spanish Federation of the Dehesa since its constitution in 2015.
Jabier Ruiz
WWF-European Policy Office
Graduate in Forestry Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Jabier did his doctoral thesis on grazed fuelbreaks at the University of Granada, Spain, where he explored how livestock could contribute to reducing wildfire hazard in Mediterranean forests. He is currently taking a sabbatical from his position of Senior Policy Officer, Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems at WWF-European Policy Office.
PEDRO MARÍA HERRERA
FENT - FUNDACIÓN ENTRETANTOS
Biologist, specialist in territorial planning, researcher and facilitator of governance processes. His current professional career is focused on project management for the Entretantos Foundation, in addition to energizing the Platform for Extensive Livestock and Pastoralism and collaborating with other pastoralist and agroecological organizations.
Teresa Pinto
UNIVERSIDADE DE ÉVORA
Her research focuses on the dynamics and management of rural landscapes, relations between agriculture and landscape, the multifunctionality of landscape, transition processes in rural areas, policies and management decisions at various scales, and relations between decision-makers and users and landscape.
Tamara Rodríguez
SEO BIRDLIFE / POR OTRA PAC
PhD in agricultural and environmental sciences, specialising in agroecosystem services. Currently responsible for the Agriculture, Livestock, Food and Rural Development Programme at SEO/BirdLife, for the development of demonstration projects on sustainable agricultural practices and systems, as well as for the monitoring and guidance of agri-food strategies and standards with potential for a just agro-ecological transition. As such, it is part of the Technical Office of the Coalition for Another CAP, to promote a fair, healthy and sustainable Common Agricultural Policy.
Block IV / Digitalisation and business models
Differentiation, certification, visibility, traceability, local breeds, local production and generational replacement are central aspects for extensive livestock farming, as a predominantly family-based business model, rooted in the territory and with a strong cultural and traditional base.
While the quality of products from extensive livestock farming is a widely accepted fact, there is still much room for improvement in terms of social recognition, the consolidation of specific marketing channels, proximity sale chains. This would require flexibility and administrative and sanitary simplification. At the same time, there are significant shortcomings in terms of transformation, associationism and networking, towards promoting capacity-building and market positioning.
On the other hand, the digitalisation of the sector could facilitate the farm daily management, improve the life standards of livestock farmers -monitoring of herds, births, feeding, etc.-, whilst there is an important rejection of digital bureaucracy, which excludes an important part of the people who are traditionally dedicated to livestock farming.
In order to explore these issues in greater depth, this thematic block includes presentations that provide a comprehensive approach with feasible solutions in the short and medium term in terms of marketing, business models and digitalization of extensive livestock farming.
MARÍA APARICIO
pigchamp pro europa
Degree in Veterinary Medicine for the UCM and Master in Digital Transformation for the UE. Working in PigCHAMP since its creation with different roles and responsibilities, including the reproductive software sales and bureau service, digital biosecurity control, software development on demand for multinational companies, poultry health and production cloud solutions and electronic and precision livestock feeding equipment sales. Currently managing the Digital Transformation in Livestock Department supervising 22 professionals including, Vets, Agronomists, Software Engineers, Telecom Engineers and Data Scientists.
Juanma Intxaurrandieta
INTIA S.A.
He is currently working partly as a technician on issues related to technical-economic management in Instituto Navarro de Tecnologías e Infraestructuras Agroalimentarias (INTIA). He has worked on numerous national and international projects related to pasture typification, sustainability of agro-livestock systems, environment and livestock farming, and innovation in dairy sheep farms.
Álvaro Barrera
ECOVALIA
Degree in Veterinary Science (University of Cordoba); in Food Technology (University of Granada) and Senior Management, Management and Finance (University of Osuna). President of the ECOVALIA Association, a non-profit organisation that promotes organic production and responsible consumption, with more than one million hectares associated in Europe.
Fernando María Vicente
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Degree in Law from the University of Salamanca and in Economics from the UNED. PhD from the University of Alcalá. Lecturer in the Department of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Salamanca. Participation in several Operational Groups of the European Innovation Agency in collaboration with livestock associations and companies linked to the beef value chain. Coordinator of the study on the agri-food sector in Castilla y León for the CESCyL.
Adrián Almazán
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / ecologistas en acción
PhD in Philosophy. He graduated in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, alternating his scientific training with militancy in different libertarian collectives, spaces where he acquired a collective and autonomous political education and encountered for the first time the critique of progress and technology.
Block V / Animal health and welfare
High temperatures and solar radiation affect animal health and welfare, with severe effects on the profitability of livestock farms. On the one hand, the increased frequency of extreme weather events will have to be supported by agricultural insurance adapted to the new circumstances. Finally, reduced rainfall and higher temperatures in Mediterranean areas will affect the production of pasture and fodder crops, which are necessary for improved livestock feed management. On the other hand, in order to ensure quality water availability, specific measures need to be implemented not only for welfare of livestock, but to guarantee exploitation sustainability
In this context, the LiveAdapt project proposes measures to improve management and protect the natural resources that guarantee the resilience of ecosystems, livestock farms, animal health and welfare, such as soil fertility, biodiversity, tquality and abundance of pastures and forage, and water resources, while protecting and increasing the natural and artificial elements that provide shade for livestock and their feed.
RAFAEL ZAFRA
universidad de córdoba
Senior Lecturer at the University of Córdoba in the Department of Animal Health. His lines of research focus on the parasitic fauna of free-living animals; Epidemiology of parasitosis in production animals; Parasitic zoonosis; Immunology of animal helminthiasis.
João Simões
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Veterinary Medicine graduated (1993), PhD in veterinary Sciences (2004) at University of Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD, Vila Real- Portugal) and "Habilitation" ("Agregation") in Veterinary Science - Clinical Speciality at FMV, University of Lisbon (2021). He worked as veterinary physician at Azores-Portugal (1993-1994) and at UTAD from 1994 also as Assistant and Assistant Professor.
Oscar García
independent veterinary
Degree in Veterinary Medicine at UCM (1982). Clinical veterinarian for cattle since 1984. Advisor to organic livestock farms since 1995. Various training and informative activities in organic livestock farming and alternative therapies.
Maria del Carmen García
JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA
Veterinarian, director of the Natural Park of the Sierra de Castril (Granada), former director of the Regional Agricultural Office (OCA) of Baza, she is a member of "Ganaderas en red".
Olivier Maurin
CORAM - Chair of the European Regional Support Group of the IYRP
Shepherd, I raise 250 ewes, 150 pigs and 10 oxen all of local breeds on a transhumant system. I am also president of the dairy sheep breeds of the Pyrenees and we are carrying out a lot of genetic work to adapt our animals to the various changes we are experiencing, both climatic and economic. I am also president of an association that defends pastoral systems at the national level.
telmo nunes
universidade de lisboa
Telmo Nunes, veterinarian, Associate Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health and Risk Analysis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon. Consultant to the Directorate General for Food and Veterinary for the development of information systems to support animal disease control.
Institutional policies
Mireia Llorente
FENT - FUNDACIÓN ENTRETANTOS
Biologist and PhD on Sustainable Use of Forest System (University of Valladolid, Spain). Their fields of research are the soil management impact on the environment, soil fertility, extensive livestock farming systems and C cycling. Currently, she works in Fundación Entretantos.
paulo canaveira
agência portuguesa do ambiente
Paulo Canaveira has been working on the relationship between land use and climate change for the last 20 years. He has collaborated with the Portuguese Environment Agency where he is responsible for calculating emissions from land use and forests in Portugal and has participated in the preparation of major climate policies, both at international level in the United Nations Framework Convention to Combat Climate Change, and at European level in the Energy and Climate Packages, as well as at national level in studies such as the Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality 2050. He is currently a Guest Researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon
LORENA RODRÍGUEZ
ex-alcaldesa de arcaboso
IRENE DE MIGUEL
asamblea de extremadura
Member of Parliament of Unidas por Extremadura and Secretary of Horizonte Verde and revitalisation of rural areas of Podemos.
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Organisational team
President / Patricia Mora McGinity (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Vice-president / Pedro María Herrera Calvo (Fundación Entretantos)
Vice-president / Vicente Rodríguez Estevez (Universidad de Córdoba)
Secretary / Santos Sanz Fernández (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / Juan Pablo Martín (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Member / Antonio Román Casas (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Member / Natalia Palmero Fernández (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Member / Sara Vargas Castillo (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Member / Ernesto López Montoya (Innogestiona Ambiental)
Member / Mireia Llorente (Fundación Entretantos)
Member / Julio Majadas (Fundación Entretantos)
Member / Pablo Rodríguez Hernández (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / Cipriano Díaz Gaona (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / Ildefonso Caballero Luna (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / José Enrique Moreno Hinojosa (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / Carolina Reyes Palomo (Universidad de Córdoba)
Member / Rafael Zafra Leva (Universidad de Córdoba)