iSAGE will enhance the sustainability, competitiveness and resilience of the European Sheep and Goat sectors through collaboration between industry and research. iSAGE have a powerful consortium with 18 industry representatives from various EU production systems and socio-economic contexts. The sheep and goat sector will be investigated because it is sensitive to general socio-economic, demographic, and ecological and market challenges; nevertheless, the project’s approach and results will be made available and disseminated to other EU livestock industries. Therefore, at the core of iSAGE is a participatory approach centered on a multi-actor internal and external communication (WP) to build the project from the farmer level. This approach will ensure relevant issues are addressed and the project outcomes are applicable in practice and create a farm-level observatory and knowledge exchange network on the sustainability of livestock. This WP will also assist three assessment work packages that will deal with the sustainability assessment of sheep and goat farm systems and related supply chains, with socio-economic demographic and consumer trend analyses, and with the impacts of climate change. Assessment WPs will inform action WPs that will: (1) redesign holistic farming systems to best reconcile the various demands concerning productivity, sustainability and societal values. (2) identify industry solutions that aim to improve sustainability and productivity of sheep and goat systems through breeding, including new phenotypes linked to sustainable animal productivity. iSAGE, together with stakeholders and end-users, will draft a roadmap for further research and policy making. The stakeholder groups will be the key players in disseminating project outputs through case studies and demonstrations to act as a blueprint to other producers across Europe and create networks to assist wider implementation of iSAGE outputs.

"The project ""Organic Olive and Olive Oil Production in EU Perspective"" was carried out by Aydin Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. Local partners of the project: TR Aydin Governorate EU and Foreign Relations Center, Cine Development Foundation, Karpuzlu Organic Olive Producers’ Association and the host partner: ICEA - Instituto Per La Certificazione Ethica Ed Ambientale (Institute of Environmental and Ethical Certification).It is aimed in the project to protect natural resources and environment, ecological balancing and sustainability, to develop training/dissemination techniques and to gain new approaches in the stages of production, packaging and marketing of organic olive and olive oil which are produced in a controlled way without harming environment and without using chemical inputs.In the project, the participants will be encouraged to support their professional development in the field of organic olive / olive oil production / production, to recognize the culture of the foreign country where the training / monitoring activity will take place, to raise awareness about the cultures, to contribute to foreign language competence, to establish an international communication network, to develop capacities and to gain international dimension.The mobility activities in the olive oil tasting, certification and standardisation, olive harvesting, processing, packing and marketing were carried out in Italy. The provincial Directorate and EU Coordination Centre will strengthen capacity and international dimension of institutions working in Organic agriculture, crop production, food safety, cooperatives, EU issues, running projects, associate degree, undergraduate personnel and decision makers as well as working in Çine Development Foundation and Organic Olive Producer Association A total of 28 staff members contributed to the activities.Within the scope of project activities;- Protection of the environment, provision of ecological balance, production of organic olive / olive oil, marketing techniques, increase of the level of knowledge and awareness in the EU standards;- Contribution to the solution of organic olive-olive oil production and marketing problems;- Increasing in comparison and implementation of techniques in EU and Turkey in terms of training / publication;- Getting familiar with European culture, feeling EU citizenship;- Strengthening institutional capacity, image and internationality through the presence of qualified and experienced personnel;- getting more benefit for the producers, enterprises and consumers from the training and extension activities have been provided.After completion of the project activities, dissemination activities have been planned in order to share the learning outputs. The organization of the Coordinator institution of Aydın Province Food and Agriculture Directorate and the contributions of the local partners, the dissemination of the project outputs and the dissemination meetings for the personnel, members and producers of the participating institutions / producers in the districts and villages were organized and brochures / printed in the scope of the project so that the dissemination activities could be carried out more effectively. Brochures/printed materials were prepared and distributed.Long-term benefits and impacts of the project can be summarized as follows:- Protecting the ecological balance by expanding organic agriculture & remaining more liveable environment for future;- Having more advantageous position in organic agriculture across the country;- Providing healthier living environment and safer food chain in terms of human health;- Contributing to the regional and national economy, increasing agricultural revenue with the growth of income in organic production locally;- Being able to be taken place in the EU and other overseas markets with our brands of olives/olive oil and compete with the exporting countries."