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Developing win-win outcomes across a range of grassland-based livestock systems

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In Europe, grassland-based livestock farming systems develop across a wide range of biogeographical conditions. These systems allow producing meat, milk and cheese with limited competition with human food supply. Intensive grazing systems limit greenhouse gas emission per unit of product, but high animal densities lead to nitrate leaching and various other nuisances. Favorable grass-growth conditions combined with the use of grass-legume mixtures allows limiting the inputs needed for production and system environmental footprint. Under more marginal conditions, permanent grasslands and rangelands provide valuable habitats for various forms of biodiversity, and a wide bundle of regulating (e.g. climate regulation via carbon sequestration, pollination, flood regulation, fire prevention, erosion prevention) and cultural (e.g. aesthetic value, product quality, ecotourism) ecosystem services. Provisioning services usually exhibit negative correlations with cultural and regulating services so that trade-offs between stakeholders occur. Though win-wins are the exception, not the rule, case-studies from various European countries illustrate opportunities for win-wins in grassland-based systems. Analyzing the mechanisms involved in grazing management and acting on the spatial arrangement of practices to increase landscape heterogeneity can help reconciling production and biodiversity. In order to create win-win situations, it is also necessary to take into account the point of view of all stakeholders. Importantly, it should not be assumed that provisioning services must always dominate any other ecosystem services. Finally, prospective scenarios offer opportunities to quantify whether shifts in production systems or food choices are likely to lead to win-win solutions.
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hal-01455938 , version 1 (03-02-2017)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01455938 , version 1
  • PRODINRA : 378574

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Bertrand Dumont, Marc Benoit, Luc Delaby, Michel Duru, Olivier Hughenin-Elie, et al.. Developing win-win outcomes across a range of grassland-based livestock systems. 67. Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Aug 2016, Belfast, United Kingdom. Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, 22, 2016, Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production. ⟨hal-01455938⟩
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