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Paru le 28/04/2023 | Broché 199 pages
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preface Pierre Gerber, Stéphane Ingrand, Sylvain Perret
Family-run ruminant grazing systems in the Mediterranean and tropical areas contribute directly to eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
For a long time, these livestock systems have been on the fringe of agricultural investment efforts. However, they have undeniable assets to meet these SDGs in interaction with other forms of livestock production systems present in the territories. But they also face a set of constraints that call into question their continuity.
The interdisciplinary synthesis presented here aims to answer three key questions : How can the adaptive capacities of these grazing livestock systems be strengthened to respond to climatic, social and economic changes ? How to improve their efficiency at different levels of organisation and on social, economic and environmental levels ? Finally, how can these livestock systems contribute to innovation processes for the agro-ecological transition ?
This book is based on recently published research by UMR Selmet (CIRAD-INRAE-lnstitut Agro) on a variety of sites around the world and in a broad international partnership.
Alexandre Ickowicz is a veterinarian expert in livestock production, Inspector General of Veterinary Public Health at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, and researcher at CIRAD. He coordinated interdisciplinary research on pastoral systems and was director of the UMR Selmet from 2015 to 2020.
Charles-Henri Moulin is an agronomist and teacher-researcher at the Institut Agro Montpellier. His work focuses on the analysis and support of transformations in livestock farming activities. He has been deputy director of the UMR Selmet since 2015.
