Sustainable intensification of grass-based ruminant production
Résumé
The sustainable or ecological intensification of grass-based food production systems provides
an opportunity to align the ever increasing global demand for food with the necessity to regreen
ruminant production. The challenge for production scientists now is to find innovative
ways to improve grass-based production processes to maximize resource use-efficiency based
on improved management practices. The objective of this paper is, firstly, to outline the
potential opportunities to en han ce the yield and quality of grasslands for grazing and conserved
forages paying particular attention to species diversity and legumes. Subsequently, the paper
addresses the necessity to choose appropriate animais and management practices to improve
productive and reproductive performance within such systems. Finally, the paper reports
experimental results from dairy cow and sheep production systems that succeeded in combining
high animal performance with low environmental impacts.
Domaines
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]Origine | Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte |
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