Ruminant farming activities play a crucial role in the world, in terms of nutrition and health, livelihoods, employment, and culture. Farming systems are currently facing the challenge to produce enough animal-based products to supply the increasing demand while being sustainable and respecting the environment. The global objective of this thesis is to capture the diversity of ruminant farming practices and systems by developing tools to support their sustainable intensification, and by proposing a conceptual framework for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Following an analysis of various intensification pathways, a new conceptual framework and typologies of farming systems over the world are proposed, based on a literature revi...
The development of the livestock sector in the past century undergone a strong intensification. The ...
Increasing imports of dairy products, milk powder price volatility, as well as a significant gap bet...
National audienceThis work aimed at designing environmental friendly farming systems and agricultura...
Ruminant farming activities play a crucial role in the world, in terms of nutrition and health, live...
Environmental issues are now at the heart of the debates concerning the evolution of dairy productio...
A survey carried out on 129 small ruminant farming systems (accounting for 5% of the national livest...
National audienceAnimal productions are now questioned by the society for their environmental impact...
In the small ruminant sector, there is a great interest in measuring and improving their production ...
International audiencePromoting the development of farming systems towards more sustainable forms, i...
National audienceThere are numerous recent studies highlighting sustainability problems for the deve...
From 1974 to 2014, intertropical Africa experienced an unprecedented growth in domestic herbivore nu...
La spécialisation des systèmes agricoles et des territoires montre ses limites, principalement d’un ...
Ruminant production has been an essential part of human activities worldwide since ancient times. Th...
The Livestock Farming System (LFS) concept was developed to assess and model the interactions betwee...
Not AvailableSmallholder livestock keepers represent almost 20% of the world population and steward ...
The development of the livestock sector in the past century undergone a strong intensification. The ...
Increasing imports of dairy products, milk powder price volatility, as well as a significant gap bet...
National audienceThis work aimed at designing environmental friendly farming systems and agricultura...
Ruminant farming activities play a crucial role in the world, in terms of nutrition and health, live...
Environmental issues are now at the heart of the debates concerning the evolution of dairy productio...
A survey carried out on 129 small ruminant farming systems (accounting for 5% of the national livest...
National audienceAnimal productions are now questioned by the society for their environmental impact...
In the small ruminant sector, there is a great interest in measuring and improving their production ...
International audiencePromoting the development of farming systems towards more sustainable forms, i...
National audienceThere are numerous recent studies highlighting sustainability problems for the deve...
From 1974 to 2014, intertropical Africa experienced an unprecedented growth in domestic herbivore nu...
La spécialisation des systèmes agricoles et des territoires montre ses limites, principalement d’un ...
Ruminant production has been an essential part of human activities worldwide since ancient times. Th...
The Livestock Farming System (LFS) concept was developed to assess and model the interactions betwee...
Not AvailableSmallholder livestock keepers represent almost 20% of the world population and steward ...
The development of the livestock sector in the past century undergone a strong intensification. The ...
Increasing imports of dairy products, milk powder price volatility, as well as a significant gap bet...
National audienceThis work aimed at designing environmental friendly farming systems and agricultura...