Johannesburg, South Africa
Practical Precision Livestock Farming
Technical sponsorship
Dear Colleagues,
We regret to inform you that E-Africa 2010 has been postponed until further notice.
Please note that the Bright Animal workshop will take place on September 8-9.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.
Should you have any questions please send a message to: contact@eafricaconference.org
The 2010 E-Africa Organizers
Workshop on Acceptable and Practical Precision Livestock Farming
(September 8-9, 2010)
Registration to the "Acceptable and Practical Precision Livestock Farming" Workshop to be held on 8th September is complimentary. If you wish to participate, please register as soon as possible, since the room has limited seating, by contacting with Workshop's Chair Mr. Heiner Lehr workshops@eafricaconference.org
DAY 1
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Session |
Presentation |
Presenter |
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Session 1 - Setting the scene |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00-09:20 |
Opening |
Mccane Mthunzi, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (South Africa) |
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09:20-09:40 |
Introduction to BrightAnimal and precision livestock farming (PLF) |
Dr Heiner Lehr, Co-ordinator BrightAnimal and Technical Director FoodReg (Spain) |
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09:45-10:05 |
Keynote |
ZA government official |
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10:05-10:40 |
Coffee break |
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Session 2 - Practical and acceptable PLF |
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10:40-11:20 |
Monitoring animal health, environment, welfare and behaviour/Identification, Sensory data collection & integrated systems development for PLF |
Prof. Eugen Kokin, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia) |
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11:25-12:05 |
Ethical & societal implications on PLF/Economic implications on PLF and the need to achieve a balanced view |
Prof. Thorkild Nielsen, Aalborg University (Denmark) Olavur Gregersen, Bitland (Faroe Islands) |
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12:10-12:30 |
Providing market access for livestock farming via certified good agricultural practices |
Dr Roland Aumuller, GLOBALGAP |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch and networking |
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Session 3 - Towards Good Practice Guides for PLF |
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14:00-14:20 |
Introduction to Good practice guides in the context of PLF |
Petter Olsen, Senior Researcher NOFIMA (Norway) |
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14:20-15.10 |
2 parallel discussion groups Group A: what should be in the Good Practice Guides Group B: practical demonstration of good practice guides |
Introduction in some detail to the practical guides. Discussion about focus, value and applicability |
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15:10-15:30 |
Report back from parallel sessions |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-16:30 |
Summary and open discussion |
Chair: Gwynne Foster, CGCSA (ZA) |
DAY 2
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Session 4 - Traceability and PLF |
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09:00-09:10 |
Traceability studies in BrightAnimal |
Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain) |
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09:15-10:30 |
Results from traceability studies in BrightAnimal |
Presentation of raw data from different countries KW Chang, DVS (Malaysia) Prof. Thomas Banhazi, University of Southern Queensland (Australia) Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:20 |
Traceability in Egypt - Success Story and Future Challenges |
Alaa Fahmy, E-TRACE Egypt |
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11:25-11:45 |
Animal tagging in South Africa |
Rachel Cloete, GMPBasic (ZA) |
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11:50-12:10 |
ISO/DIS 12877 (TraceFish) as a potential model |
Petter Olsen, Senior Researcher NOFIMA (Norway) |
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12:15-12:35 |
Smallholders and traceability |
Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain) |
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12:35-14:00 |
Lunch and networking |
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Session 5 - The BrightAnimal book |
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14:00-14:20 |
Introduction to the BrightAnimal project book |
Andrew Callaway, AIM UK (UK) |
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14:25-15:00 |
Brainstorm: what should be in the book, what not |
Chair: Andrew Callaway, AIM UK (UK) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 6 - Roundtable |
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15:30-16:30 |
Open discussion |
Chair: Gwynne Foster, CGCSA (ZA) |
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16:30 |
Closure |
Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain) |