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The Know-how of Livestock Farmers Challenged by New Objectives for European Farming
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@MISC{Hubert_theknow-how,
author = {Bernard Hubert and Christian Deverre and Michel Meuret},
title = {The Know-how of Livestock Farmers Challenged by New Objectives for European Farming},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
New challenges appeared recently about rangelands in France, because of a new social concern about their environmental value. In this paper, the role and use of these lands are described from an historical perspective (19-20th c), to better understand how the increasing technology and market co-ordination led modern stock breeder to lose confidence into this resource. Through new eyes, these lands are now perceived as “ landscapes ”, support for biodiversity when appropriate grazing management helps to control shrubs dynamics. Restoring the quality of this vacated and vacant rural lands became the goal of new public policies and livestock producers are assigned new functions. That creates some confusion in leading farmers minds, who are quite fearful about applying “ archaic ” methods, as herding out to pasture, when no technical handbooks are available. Through research, we have intend to make understandable and teachable the savoir-faire of the herders that still graze their flocks on rangelands. That leads to point out some “ post-modern ” management models, that combines both biological and social aspects, as the grazing circuits shaping that increases dietary motivations for coarse resources. This research ambitions to be operational for the different agents concerned, using new methodologies that associates: 1 ° the representations agents have of their environment and the reasons underlying their activities; 2 ° modelling of real-life processes; 3 ° the finding of experimental analytical studies. The new objectives for farming provide a one-time opportunity to stimulate interdisciplinary approaches involving natural, technological, human and social sciences.
Keyphrases
new objective livestock farmer challenged european farming environmental value social science real-life process dietary motivation different agent archaic method appropriate grazing management new eye post-modern management model social aspect historical perspective new social concern new function modern stock breeder farmer mind interdisciplinary approach new public policy shrub dynamic new methodology representation agent coarse resource experimental analytical study technical handbook new challenge market co-ordination one-time opportunity livestock producer vacant rural land
