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Understanding, redesigning and improving feed self-sufficiency in livestock farming

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Livestock farming systems must to be redesigned all over world, in order to cope with environmental issues and deal with climate change and economic context regarding to farms’ sustainability. Building feed self-sufficiency of animal production is a way to start transition based on agroecology concepts and using local feeding resources. Scientific literature shows different definition of feed self-sufficiency and identifies different patterns to improve it. Despite of it, implementation by farmers remains unclear to scientists. This study aims at identifying from farmers and advisors, different concepts of feed self-sufficiency and the ways they have in mind to reach it. This study was lead in two dairy ewe regions, in order to compare contexts and to analyze sociotechnical systems. Our main stake was to identify some specific accompanying measures. To do that, a participatory method with LEGO® serious play followed by an individual approach with farmers’ interviews were conducted. Designing feed self-sufficiency with LEGO® serious play allowed to the participants exchanging and building a shared description of feed self-sufficient system. Grazing management, forage practices and barn hay drying were the main practices identified to reach feed self-sufficiency at farm-level. In one of the two region, farmers increased the diversity of the forage resources improving feed self-sufficiency at farm level. In the other region, feed self-sufficiency has been thought at territory scale, because the farms' size are too small and the level of intensification is high. Exchanges with grain farmers is the best way to achieve feed self-sufficiency at territory scale. Four common mainstay were identified: mechanization, social life, environmental impacts and economic profitability enlarging the single concept of feed self-sufficiency. Finally, feed self-sufficiency is reached when the farmer feels autonomous by himself. This study is a milestone for agroecological transition to challenge the agriculture changes from global to local.
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hal-03048958 , version 1 (09-12-2020)

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Vincent Thenard, L Laporte-Riou, Antoine Dore, Danielle Machado, Julie Ryschawy. Understanding, redesigning and improving feed self-sufficiency in livestock farming. 6th International Symposium for Farming System Design, Aug 2019, Montevideo, Uruguay. ⟨hal-03048958⟩
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