EIP-AGRI Focus Group Permanent Grassland. Report of the first meeting

The first meeting of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Permanent Grasslands took place in Frankfurt, Germany, on 26 and 27 June, 2014. The report gives an overview of the meeting and collects the different ideas gathered both during the meeting and the preparatory phase. The group identified main management issues when dealing with profitability and sustainability of permanent grasslands, as well as the main problems or opportunities to be tackled and existing or potential approaches and techniques to address them.