Livestock farming is an essential activity in many rural areas, where it contributes to the maintenance of soil fertility and farmland biodiversity, as well as to a set of social public goods including food security, rural vitality and culture. However, livestock sustainability assessments tend to focus primarily on environmental and economic dimensions; therefore, these valuations might be limited because they do not consider the complete set of associated goods and services (GS). Hence, a need exists to recognise the multiple contributions provided by livestock to human well-being and society. The objective of this study was to analyse the provision of multiple GS derived from livestock across regions in France and empirically demonstrate sets of GS that repeatedly appeared together. We designated these multiple GS provided by livestock as contributions to productive, environmental, rural vitality and cultural benefits that human populations derive directly or indirectly from livestock agroecosystems. First, we combined expert knowledge with results of a literature review to define a bundle of GS provided by livestock. We then described indicators that quantified each good or service and screened national databases to determine the availability of supporting data. Finally, we assessed the GS and their relationships (synergies or trade-offs) on a nation-wide gradient in France at the department level (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 3). Four main categories of GS were considered: provisioning (e.g. food quantity and quality), environmental quality (e.g. biodiversity, landscape heterogeneity, water quality), rural vitality (e.g. employment, rural dynamism) and culture (e.g. gastronomy and landscape heritage). Four major types of GS bundles were identified, which suggested strong contrasts among French rural areas in terms of the nature of the GS that occurred together and their levels of provision. GS bundles in France had a non-random spatial distribution. This study represents an initial step towards developing a methodology to consider GS bundles provided by livestock. Nonetheless, further research is needed to understand socio-economic, environmental, political and geographic determinants of the composition of GS bundles.

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L'élevage joue un rôle essentiel dans les territoires ruraux au sein desquels il assure de nombreux services économiques, environnementaux et sociaux. Appréhender la multiplicité des services rendus par l'élevage à la société représente donc un enjeu essentiel mais aussi un champ nouveau pour la recherche agronomique. L'objectif de cette étude est de réaliser une première quantification des services rendus par l'élevage en considérant les dimensions économiques, environnementales et sociales. Sur la base de réunions d'experts et de la revue de la littérature, nous avons d'abord proposé une qualification des services rendus par l'élevage pour définir le bouquet de services rendus par l'élevage en France. Nous avons ensuite sélectionné des indicateurs pour quantifier des bouquets de services départementaux à partir des bases de données mobilisables à l'échelle de la France. Nous avons analysé les services et leurs interrelations (synergies ou antagonismes) par une typologie de bouquets de services au niveau départemental. L'analyse met en évidence quatre catégories principales de services : approvisionnement (e.g. quantité et qualité d'aliments), qualité environnementale (e.g. biodiversité, hétérogénéité des paysages), vitalité territoriale (e.g. dynamisme rural et emploi) et identité culturelle (e.g. gastronomie, identité des terroirs). Quatre grands types de bouquets de service ont été mis en évidence présentant des niveaux contrastés d'expression des services. L'analyse de leur distribution géographique a montré une répartition non-aléatoire des types de bouquets. Une perspective de ce travail consistera à étudier les principaux leviers socio-économiques, politiques, écologiques et géographiques impliqués dans la fourniture de services pour informer les décideurs politiques et la société.Comment évaluer les services rendus par l'élevage ? Une première approche méthodologique sur le cas de la France / 37 INRA Productions Animales, 2015, numéro 1 Résumé Abstract How to assess the multiple services provided by livestock? A preliminary methodology applied on the French case-studyLivestock plays a major role in rural areas, where it provides economic, environmental and social services. There is a pressing need to assess the multiple positive contributions provided by livestock to society. This would be useful for society in general but constitutes a new scientific topic as well. The objective of this study was to develop a framework for the assessment of the social, economical and ecological services provided by livestock in France. Combining expert knowledge and literature review, we first defined the set of services provided by livestock. We then selected indicators to quantify the services considered at the department level considering the available databases on the French case-study. We finally assessed services and their relationships (synergies or tradeoffs) on a gradient of French departments. Four main classes of services were revealed: provisioning (e.g. food quantity and quality), environmental quality (e.g...

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