Arid and sub-arid areas, where are located most of the world's cattle, are concerned by a sustainable improvement of their productivity. During the dry season, that can last 9 months, herds range free on territories made of spontaneous plants and crop residues from cultivated areas. From observations of animal activities, intake rates and daily circuits on a sahelo-sudanian territory, we built a herd-oriented model which simulates spatial behavior (circuits) and feed intake (spatialized intake). Our approach consisted in introducing successively the very necessary information that realistically represents animal behaviors. The heuristic rules of herds'choices are a combination of our observations and ethological theories: i.e. factors linke...
Proceedings of the International Seminar Economic, social and environmental sustainability in sheep ...
International audienceIn the early 2010s, cattle breeding cooperatives in Reunion Island resorted to...
Numerous territories of Sub-Saharan Africa are composed of a mosaic of very different landscape unit...
Les régions tropicales sub-arides à semi-arides, qui englobent une large part du cheptel bovin mondi...
National audienceBreeding and agriculture for autoconsumption and income, are integrated in agropast...
En zones sèches, l'augmentation des surfaces emblavées aux dépends des aires de parcours pose un pro...
The model presented allows the spatial dynamics stemming from the interactions between m...
<p>Increasing livestock densities on limited grazing areas in African savannahs lead to resour...
Free-range and common-grazing ruminants play a major role in the functioning and the provision of ec...
Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.A large proportion of the world's land su...
In the Sahel, the question of interactions between rangeland herding practices and the environment l...
Feed intake on pastures plays a vital role in cattle rearing in West Africa. However, the scarcity o...
The objective of our study was to investigate with bio-technical and economical simulations, if reco...
Improved understandings of the agricultural and range ecologies of semi-arid Africa require better i...
[Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN / CERESn order to investigate the trade-offs between anim...
Proceedings of the International Seminar Economic, social and environmental sustainability in sheep ...
International audienceIn the early 2010s, cattle breeding cooperatives in Reunion Island resorted to...
Numerous territories of Sub-Saharan Africa are composed of a mosaic of very different landscape unit...
Les régions tropicales sub-arides à semi-arides, qui englobent une large part du cheptel bovin mondi...
National audienceBreeding and agriculture for autoconsumption and income, are integrated in agropast...
En zones sèches, l'augmentation des surfaces emblavées aux dépends des aires de parcours pose un pro...
The model presented allows the spatial dynamics stemming from the interactions between m...
<p>Increasing livestock densities on limited grazing areas in African savannahs lead to resour...
Free-range and common-grazing ruminants play a major role in the functioning and the provision of ec...
Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.A large proportion of the world's land su...
In the Sahel, the question of interactions between rangeland herding practices and the environment l...
Feed intake on pastures plays a vital role in cattle rearing in West Africa. However, the scarcity o...
The objective of our study was to investigate with bio-technical and economical simulations, if reco...
Improved understandings of the agricultural and range ecologies of semi-arid Africa require better i...
[Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN / CERESn order to investigate the trade-offs between anim...
Proceedings of the International Seminar Economic, social and environmental sustainability in sheep ...
International audienceIn the early 2010s, cattle breeding cooperatives in Reunion Island resorted to...
Numerous territories of Sub-Saharan Africa are composed of a mosaic of very different landscape unit...