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Why and how to analyze the potential of mixed crop-livestock farming systems for sustainable agricultural and rural development at the landscape level?

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Mixed crop-livestock farming systems (MCLFSs) have been declining in France despite the special value they are granted for the sustainable development of both agriculture and rural areas. We assume that to promote MCLFSs, first, we need to understand long-term changes by looking at rural development in the past, and second, we need to assess their potential using an integrated framework to evaluate their role in landscape functions. Consequently, we used interdisciplinary case studies concerning agriculture and the environment in contrasted regions in France to build a multi-scale and spatially-explicit conceptual model of the relationships between agricultural land use and landscape functions from the parcel to the landscape level. The processes of change in these relationships are assumed to be embedded in a double hierarchy of organisation and dynamics, i.e. local agriculture and its restructuring process on the one hand, and local landscape mosaïcs and ecological dynamics on the other. The parcel is the entity shared by the two hierarchies which enables the study of multiscale interactions between ecosystem services and agricultural practices. At higher levels, parcel management is incorporated in the decision-making strategies of farmers (agricultural viewpoint) and in society-driven ecosystem and landscape management regulations and incentives (ecological viewpoint). The results of the case studies underline: i/ the major role of grasslands and the spatial allocation of crops in providing ecosystem services at the landscape level, and ii/ common trends of change in farm management across case-study areas: an aim to secure forage resources (to cope with periods of drought), an interest in the services that livestock farming can provide to crop production, and increased exchanges between farms. We conclude that a combination of testing innovative MCLFS and conducting participatory research with the actors of rural territories can support progress towards multifunctional land use.
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hal-01191366 , version 1 (01-09-2015)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01191366 , version 1
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Annick Gibon, Julie Ryschawy, Noémie Schaller, Jean-Louis Fiorelli, Alain Havet, et al.. Why and how to analyze the potential of mixed crop-livestock farming systems for sustainable agricultural and rural development at the landscape level?. The 10th European IFSA, Jul 2012, Aarhus, Denmark. 9 p. ⟨hal-01191366⟩
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