Resilient dairy: socio-technical innovation for dairy resilience and sustainability

弹性乳制品：乳制品弹性和可持续性的社会技术创新

• 批准号: BB/R005680/1
• 负责人: Mark Reed
• 金额: $ 85.79万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FR005680%2F1
• 关键词: Resilient; dairy; socio; technical; innovation

This project will explore new ways to make dairy systems better for the natural environment and farmers' livelihoods, while maintaining the long-term supply of dairy products at reasonable prices in the face of unpredictable challenges like climate change. We will do this by combining the latest natural, social, biological and veterinary science with industry expertise and experiential farmer knowledge, to devise and test innovations that could increase the resilience and sustainability of dairy farming in a rapidly changing world.THE CHALLENGEThe UK alone has the tenth largest dairy sector in the world, producing 14 percent of the EU's milk and representing over two per cent of global milk production. A sustainable dairy industry must improve or maintain water, biodiversity and soil quality, meet social expectations, offer farmers a livelihood and provide accessible and affordable dairy products to consumers. However, a number of important changes threaten the long-term future of the sector. The UK dairy industry has suffered from low and sometimes negative profit margins in recent years, worsened by high input costs, competition between retailers, global oversupply and, since 2014, Russian dairy import bans. Dairy production depends on nature but, if poorly managed, can erode the natural capital upon which it depends, for example by polluting rivers. Dairy systems also use a lot of water, and so are vulnerable to reductions in water availability and quality caused by climate change, and they are also vulnerable to the introduction of new animal diseases transmitted by ticks or insects. In order to make systems resilient to these future changes, and to make them sustainable and socially responsible, we need to understand the complex links between dairy production, animal health, and the natural ecosystems upon which they depend. OUR APPROACHWe will do this by investigating a range of innovative, practical measures developed with, and applied by, major players in the dairy industry in collaboration with dairy farmers in the north of England and south of Scotland, that are designed to improve animal health and milk production while improving the natural environment. This will include the use of new pricing models being piloted by Nestle that reward more sustainable production decisions and enable farmers to adapt more effectively to future change, so guaranteeing the long-term supply of dairy products to manufacturers. We will also investigate a range of other innovative interventions, which we will develop in collaboration with farmers and other stakeholders, for example new techniques for loosening compacted soils and methods from precision agriculture. With the possibility of a post-Brexit reduction or cessation of direct payments to dairy farmers it is critical and timely to improve both financial and environmental sustainability in the sector. The project combines cutting edge social, economic, natural, biological and veterinary science to identify and test new approaches in close collaboration with industry partners in the UK. The work will provide evidence to the devolved administrations, Defra (notably feeding into their two forthcoming 25-year plans) and the third sector to inform post-Brexit policy on food, farming and environmental policy, and will support the Government's role in providing early warning of major, notifiable or new and emerging animal diseases in the dairy sector. We will use computer models and an international stakeholder network to identify lessons for the industry internationally.

该项目将探索新的方法，使乳品系统更有利于自然环境和农民的生计，同时在面临气候变化等不可预测的挑战时，以合理的价格保持乳制品的长期供应。我们将通过将最新的自然、社会、生物和兽医科学与行业专业知识和经验丰富的农民知识相结合来实现这一点，以设计和测试创新，以提高奶牛养殖业在快速变化的世界中的韧性和可持续性。仅英国就拥有世界第十大乳制品行业，生产了欧盟14%的牛奶，占全球牛奶产量的2%以上。可持续的奶业必须改善或保持水、生物多样性和土壤质量，满足社会期望，为农民提供生计，并向消费者提供可获得和负担得起的乳制品。然而，一些重要的变化威胁着该行业的长期未来。近年来，英国乳制品行业的利润率很低，有时甚至为负，这一点因高昂的投入成本、零售商之间的竞争、全球供应过剩以及自2014年以来俄罗斯禁止进口乳制品而恶化。乳制品生产依赖于自然，但如果管理不善，可能会侵蚀其所依赖的自然资本，例如通过污染河流。乳品系统也使用大量的水，因此很容易受到气候变化导致的水资源供应和质量下降的影响，而且它们也很容易受到由扁虱或昆虫传播的新动物疾病的影响。为了使系统对这些未来的变化具有弹性，并使其可持续和对社会负责，我们需要了解乳制品生产、动物健康和它们所依赖的自然生态系统之间的复杂联系。我们的APPROACH我们将通过调查与英格兰北部和苏格兰南部的奶农合作开发并由乳制品行业主要参与者应用的一系列创新、实用的措施来实现这一点，这些措施旨在改善动物健康和牛奶生产，同时改善自然环境。这将包括使用雀巢正在试行的新定价模式，该模式奖励更可持续的生产决策，使农民能够更有效地适应未来的变化，从而保证向制造商提供乳制品的长期供应。我们还将研究一系列其他创新干预措施，我们将与农民和其他利益攸关方合作开发，例如松散压实土壤的新技术和精准农业的方法。由于英国退欧后有可能减少或停止向奶农直接付款，改善该部门的财务和环境可持续性是至关重要的，也是及时的。该项目结合了尖端的社会、经济、自然、生物和兽医科学，与英国的行业合作伙伴密切合作，确定和测试新的方法。这项工作将向被移交的政府、Defra(特别是为其即将到来的两个25年计划提供资金)和第三部门提供证据，为英国退欧后的食品、农业和环境政策提供信息，并将支持政府在奶制品部门提供重大、应通报或新出现的动物疾病的早期预警方面的作用。我们将使用计算机模型和国际利益相关者网络，在国际上为该行业寻找经验教训。

项目成果

Integrating ecosystem markets to co-ordinate landscape-scale public benefits from nature

整合生态系统市场以协调自然景观规模的公共利益

• DOI: 10.31223/x54g74
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Reed M

Integrating ecosystem markets to co-ordinate landscape-scale public benefits from nature.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258334
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Reed MS;Curtis T;Gosal A;Kendall H;Andersen SP;Ziv G;Attlee A;Fitton RG;Hay M;Gibson AC;Hume AC;Hill D;Mansfield JL;Martino S;Olesen AS;Prior S;Rodgers C;Rudman H;Tanneberger F
• 通讯作者: Tanneberger F

Identifying economic and societal drivers of engagement in agri-environmental schemes for English dairy producers

• DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105174
• 发表时间: 2021-01-02
• 期刊: LAND USE POLICY
• 影响因子: 7.1
• 作者: Coyne, L.;Kendall, H.;Williams, D. J. L.
• 通讯作者: Williams, D. J. L.