The project involves seven European partner organisations, as well as two nationally funded partners in China. Each of the partners have their own, complementary expertise and role within the project. The consortium is formed to ensure that all priority areas of the project are well represented, and to also make sure the partner countries represent a wide diversity of animal production, antimicrobial usage and consumer perceptions within EU. The Chinese partners do not only represent the Chinese animal production sector, but add extremely central expertise to the consortium, namely expertise on research on farm waste as a risk of environmental pollution.
The successful accomplishment of the ISAP project goals is not possible without the cooperation of a large range of stakeholders. A large variety of stakeholders have indicated their interest for collaoration with the ISAP project, including, for example, farmer associations, meat-producting companies, retailers and veterinary organisations.
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The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences. This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education. This is the Wageningen Approach.
The scientific quality of Wageningen University & Research is affirmed by the prominent position we occupy in international rankings and citation indexes.
The domain of Wageningen University & Research consists of three core areas:
The Faculty of Economic Sciences (formerly faculty of Agricultural Economics) provides a wide range of expertise in such areas as multifunctional rural development, Sustainable Agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy or Animal Welfare.
Agro-Environmental Protection Institute (AEPI) was formed in 1979 approved by the State Council and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). It is a nonprofit scientific research institute that it is located under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. AEPI is also chief unit of the national agricultural environmental pollution accident emergency plan technical support institutions, it mainly includes three fields: agricultural pollution prevention and control, agricultural environmental monitoring and agricultural ecology. Staff is/has been active in relevant national forums as well as internationally. The research focus relevant to the current project relates to the agro-waste utilization, the livestock waste and its reuse in agriculture, microbial treatment technique of the waste. There is considerable combined experience of managing large national and international projects though international cooperation e.g. Sino-EU cooperation, Sino-Finland cooperation, Sino-US cooperation and Sino-Germany cooperation. Additionally, Tianjin institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary (AHV) and Tianjin Animal Husbandry Development Service Center (TAHDSC) commissioned AEPI to establish a center of Tianjin Environmental Pollution Control Engineering Center of Large-scale Livestock and Poultry Farm. Staff has participated or is currently participating in several MOA and Projects e.g. “Detecting Techniques of Antibiotic, Heavy Metal and Pathogen in Animal Waste”, “Key technologies for utilization of livestock wastewater resources and land irrigation”, “Technology and Equipment Research & Demonstration with biogas treatment and utilization used of Life sludge”, “Technology Integration and Demonstration of Non-Point Source Pollution Prevention and Control in Agriculture in Intensive Agro-Regions of North China” etc. The inspection center of AEPI takes a lot of tasks to establish inspection standard of antibiotics, pesticides and so on.
Tianjin Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research Institute (TAVI) was built in 1980, which has affiliation to Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It is a livestock research organization established by Tianjin municipal government. The institute have four research platforms foundation by nationally and Tianjin municipal government respectively, including Tianjin Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine and Diagnostic Techniques of Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Tianjin laboratory of Chinese Animal Epidemic Data Center, Demonstration and Extension Base of Foreign Intellectual Achievements Introduction of Tianjin, and Livestock and Poultry Health Culture Technology Engineering Center of Tianjin.
The Institute is mainly engaged in the prevention and control of livestock and poultry diseases, animal nutrition and feed, animal breeding and biological engineering technology. In the field of veterinary research, the faculty of the institute major study on the diagnosis and control technology of livestock and poultry, and promotion and service for animal farms using the technology. And the staffs of the Institute are familiar with the epidemiology of animal diseases, molecular pathogens, mechanism of bacterial resistance, development of new veterinary drugs and diagnostic preparations, as well as Clinical effect evaluation of the drugs.
During the past 30 years, staffs of the Institute undertaken and completed 58 national and provincial research projects, won 28 awards from national and provincial, and published 350 papers and 15 academic monographs. They made significant contributions to the development of animal husbandry of Tianjin and North China.