The main principles of organic farming as presented by the European organisation for organic food and farming are health, ecology, fairness and care, but intrinsic quality of products is also important for consumers. Pig genotype was tested as a lever to improve animal welfare and pork quality (meat tenderness, processing ability) of organic, non-c...
Integrated animal health management can be defined as all the knowledge and practices mobilized by humans in a coordinated manner in order to build, preserve or recover the health of individuals or the herd within the breeding system. It is based on the joint mobilization of three complementary principles: preventing the onset of diseases by limiti...
Published in Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary In a value chain, matching supply and demand is needed. Indeed, both vary widely in space and time. The first method of approaching this issue is homogenizing the supply of meat production. It depends on the possibility for farmers to limit the variability in biological processes by improving production conditions. Other marketing st...
Variabilité du contexte de production, pertes de colonies d’abeilles : les exploitations apicoles font aujourd'hui face à différentes problématiques environnementales comme socio-économiques. Dans ce contexte, le projet DURAPI a visé à élaborer un cadre d’évaluation de la durabilité de ces exploitations, à travers une démarche participative qui a i...
The growing interest in rotational crossbreeding in Western countries is due to its potential to improve reproductive and health performances of cows. Although a large amount of research focuses on assessing crossbred cows’ performances, how to manage the transition from purebred to rotational crossbred herds is under-explored. Based on a retrospec...
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 ...
Livestock systems contribute significantly to environmental issues and need to undergo an agroecological transition. This transition is not only technical, but also involves an evolution of farmers’ ways of seeing and interpreting the world, i.e., worldviews. We investigate livestock farmers’ worldviews and their relationships with farming practice...
Livestock systems contribute significantly to environmental issues and need to undergoan agroecological transition. This transition is not only technical, but also involves an evolution offarmers’ ways of seeing and interpreting the world, i.e., worldviews. We investigate livestock farmers’worldviews and their relationships with farming practices (...
There has been increasing interest in once-a-day milking (ODM) in recent years. Despite the loss in milk production due to the reduction in milking frequency, ODM has several advantages for farm management, particularly labour savings. It has already been demonstrated that adapting management can compensate for the reduction in milk production, esp...
En partant des principes et des concepts de l’innovation et de l’apprentissage organisationnel, nous montrons dans cette communication l’intérêt de mettre en place des dispositifs de pilotage stratégique permet-tant aux acteurs de s’adapter chemin faisant à un contexte agri alimentaire en évolution (mutations des marchés, des attentes des consommat...
