Old holm oak coppices … new sylvopastoral practices

Bellon, Stéphane; Guérin, Gérard

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“…However, this no longer consists of inventory-type lists of species, but also of taking into account the interactions between these species and establishing and using functional categorizations with respect to the cultivated systems in question. The characterization of plant species as a function of their role as food in grazing (Agreil and Meuret 2004) or the description of land parcels as a function of their role in an annual food strategy (Bellon et al 1999) are examples of this.…”

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Agroecology as farmers’ situated ways of acting : a conceptual framework

Toffolini¹,

Cardona

Casagrande

et al. 2018

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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The limits of numerous agricultural systems developed on principles set after the Second World War are increasingly highlighted. Meanwhile, agricultural and food systems associated with agroecological principles are progressively institutionalized in various countries. Whereas a dominant research production by agronomists consists in deduction of "agroecological practices" from fundamental agroecological principles, a gap remains between those principles and the specific management actions on farms that allow to build new agroecological framing systems. In this study, we stem from an analysis of management actions in 8 different case studies corresponding to farmers' collectives engaged in an evolution of their practices towards agroecology. We review the agroecological scientific literature in order to identify shared principles and system properties deduced from them, that we iteratively compared to the practices implemented by farmers, making the transition in our case studies. Our proposal is then to describe agroecology "in the making" as 4 interconnected ways of acting, each corresponding to specific relations between management actions and the systems' properties. Lastly, the analysis of agroecology from the actors' management practices allows us to support a new viewpoint about a research agenda for agronomists, giving reflexive benchmarks to relocate research activities within the institutionalization dynamics of agroecology.

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Section: Diversity Of Tools and Their Functionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroecology as farmers’ situated ways of acting : a conceptual framework

Toffolini¹,

Cardona

Casagrande

et al. 2018

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Variation of stand structure and regeneration of Mediterranean holm oak along a grazing intensity gradient

Cierjacks

Hensen

2004

Plant Ecology

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Growth of local food systems: a review of potential food safety implications.

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A major challenge for livestock farming systems (LFSs) is to reconcile production with the management of natural resources, especially biodiversity and ecosystem services. Based on a review of research conducted on grassland-and rangeland-based LFSs, this paper addresses this challenge by analysing biodiversity as a product of and a key resource for LFSs. Although most studies reveal antagonisms between biodiversity and production, our findings show that it is possible to move towards synergies. The literature review sheds light on five points: (i) moving beyond an antagonistic view of biodiversity and production by considering biodiversity as a resource requires new criteria for biodiversity categorization from a taxonomic view to a functional one; (ii) functional biodiversity (both domestic and wild) considered as a resource provides beneficial properties (e.g. stability and resilience) to LFSs; (iii) links between production and biodiversity cannot be simply summarized as having a negative impact of production intensity as management practices have various impacts on the different components of biodiversity; (iv) impact assessment studies linking management of LFSs and biodiversity reveal complex multi-level interactions between grassland or rangeland management and biodiversity; (v) a large range of management options are available to move towards biodiversitybased LFSs. We conclude that future research should address the challenge of collective management of wild biodiversity at higher levels of organization (landscapes, territories, etc.) and that such collective management would greatly benefit from the experience of domestic biodiversity.

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Old holm oak coppices … new sylvopastoral practices

Cited by 3 publications

References 3 publications

Agroecology as farmers’ situated ways of acting : a conceptual framework

Agroecology as farmers’ situated ways of acting : a conceptual framework

Variation of stand structure and regeneration of Mediterranean holm oak along a grazing intensity gradient

Growth of local food systems: a review of potential food safety implications.

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