EuroDairy – Socio-economic resilience resources

Resilience is a new topic for French dairy farmers.

In order to make resilience a reality, Hauts-de-France operational group (made of farmers and advisers) built a tool to have a concrete approach with indicators.

The tool aims to: 

• Allow for a simple and quick approach to resilience
• Provide a global and practical vision of the farm
• Define indicators of resilience that are adapted to dairy farmers
• Simplify the tool
• Capitalise and compare results between farms

The tool will be used by several advisory organisations during training or at meetings.

As part of work package 6 “Socio-economic resilience”, the EuroDairy project defined the goal to report on innovative approaches to planning tools and approaches to manage volatility and reduce business risk on dairy farms.

Discussions between project partners made clear how important this topic is and will remain in the coming years. 

This report aims to spark discussion between farmers and advisors, to learn from experience and developments elsewhere, and to exchange available knowledge across borders.

This report focuses on innovative approaches to time management, labour organisation and skills issues on dairy farms.

The aim of this report is to give an overview of practices, programmes and courses, tools and reading material which have been produced or are under development in EuroDairy partner countries. 

This report will address business models and  help to contextualise the overall requirements within one industry or another.

This project has received funding from the European Union`s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 696364.