National audienceDuring the dry season, transhumant zebu cattle herds used to graze on the Senegal River delta wet areas. Since the 1960s, agricultural colonization and rice cultivation caused major changes in cattle management and feeding. The feeding behavior of three herds was observed from May to July 2000 and from January to July 2001. Rice straw was the main feed, consumed from the ground after harvest by herds moving through the rice areas. From January to May 2001, more than 70% of the feeding activity was concentrated on straw. Then, from May to July, the straw being scarce, substitution forages were grazed or browsed: Typhaceae and Cyperaceae on river banks, and also grasses, a few legumes and Chenopodiaceae from the remaining pas...
International audienceIn the Middle West, in the Vakinankaratra region of Madagas-car, farms have an...
N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceTerritories, Herds and biomasses: Links and conditi...
Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le défici...
During the dry season, transhumant zebu cattle herds used to graze on the Senegal River delta wet ar...
International audienceWest African dairy farmers are faced with constraints in feeding their cows du...
National audienceIn the last decades, cattle feeding became the main constraint after disease manage...
National audienceBreeding and agriculture for autoconsumption and income, are integrated in agropast...
From 1974 to 2014, intertropical Africa experienced an unprecedented growth in domestic herbivore nu...
In North Cameroon like in similar areas of Sudano-sahelian Africa, severe drought and high demograph...
In the development of the Senegal River Valley and more precisely irrigated agriculture, pastoralist...
In the family exploitations of dairy mixed-crop-livestock of West Africa the tree fills traditionall...
Dans un contexte d’aménagement de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal et de développement de l’agriculture i...
Arid and sub-arid areas, where are located most of the world's cattle, are concerned by a sustainabl...
AbstractA diagnostic study of the development potential of livestock for the rice-based economy of t...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Fin des deux solitudes de l'élevage et de l'agricu...
International audienceIn the Middle West, in the Vakinankaratra region of Madagas-car, farms have an...
N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceTerritories, Herds and biomasses: Links and conditi...
Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le défici...
During the dry season, transhumant zebu cattle herds used to graze on the Senegal River delta wet ar...
International audienceWest African dairy farmers are faced with constraints in feeding their cows du...
National audienceIn the last decades, cattle feeding became the main constraint after disease manage...
National audienceBreeding and agriculture for autoconsumption and income, are integrated in agropast...
From 1974 to 2014, intertropical Africa experienced an unprecedented growth in domestic herbivore nu...
In North Cameroon like in similar areas of Sudano-sahelian Africa, severe drought and high demograph...
In the development of the Senegal River Valley and more precisely irrigated agriculture, pastoralist...
In the family exploitations of dairy mixed-crop-livestock of West Africa the tree fills traditionall...
Dans un contexte d’aménagement de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal et de développement de l’agriculture i...
Arid and sub-arid areas, where are located most of the world's cattle, are concerned by a sustainabl...
AbstractA diagnostic study of the development potential of livestock for the rice-based economy of t...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Fin des deux solitudes de l'élevage et de l'agricu...
International audienceIn the Middle West, in the Vakinankaratra region of Madagas-car, farms have an...
N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceTerritories, Herds and biomasses: Links and conditi...
Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le défici...