The Santa Teresa farm hosted a workshop that brought together technicians from the INTA office in Colonia Benítez and producers from neighboring towns for a working day as part of the project “One Welfare for the resilience of livestock farms.” 

The meeting, held on March 13, 2025, had the central purpose of landing the global concepts of “One Welfare” into the productive reality of the establishments in the area. In the first stage, INTA researcher Natalia Aguilar, who leads the project, explained the fundamentals of co-innovation applied to the territory. 

In this regard, she explained that the success of the project in the province of Chaco fundamentally depends on the integration between academic knowledge and the empirical experience of those who manage the herd daily. 

Subsequently, the dialogue turned towards the identification of the most common stress factors in the region's pastoral systems.  

In this sense, the technicians highlighted that animal welfare should not be seen as an additional cost, but as an investment that directly impacts the resilience of the system in the face of the climatic crises affecting the Chaco region. 

Towards the end of the activity, the steps to follow for monitoring welfare indicators in the voluntary establishments were defined. 

This articulation between INTA and the producers of Laguna Blanca allows scientific knowledge to be translated into tangible improvements for livestock farming in the NEA region, consolidating the regional leadership that the FONTAGRO project promotes from Argentina. 

This collaboration between INTA and producers in the region allows scientific knowledge to be translated into tangible improvements for livestock farming in the NEA region, consolidating the regional leadership that the FONTAGRO project promotes from Argentina.