Toward integrated crop-livestock systems in West Africa: A project for dairy production along Senegal river
| Autor: | Bernard Giroud, Philippe Lecomte, Gilles Lemaire, Christian Corniaux, Bagoré Bathily |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies et Plantes Fourragères (P3F), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), SAFE Nutrition, Laiterie du Berger, Systèmes d'élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux (UMR SELMET), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Gilles Lemaire, Paulo César De Faccio Carvalho, Scott Kronberg, Sylvie Recous |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences
0106 biological sciences Dairy systems Pastoralism Crop livestock 01 natural sciences Profit (economics) Stocking Cropping system Agro-pastoralism 2. Zero hunger Irrigated systems business.industry Agroforestry Alfalfa 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 15. Life on land Crop-livestock integration Sub-Sahara Africa Agriculture Leaf protein extract 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Business Arable land Cropping 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Agroecosystem Diversity. Reconciling contemporary agriculture and environmental quality Gilles Lemaire; Paulo César De Faccio Carvalho; Scott Kronberg; Sylvie Recous. Agroecosystem Diversity. Reconciling contemporary agriculture and environmental quality, Academic press, 2019, 978-0-12-811050-8. ⟨10.1016/B978-0-12-811050-8.00017-0⟩ |
| Popis: | Agriculture development in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by two important tendencies: (1) a strong degradation of the natural forage resources exploited by pastoralism due to excess and uncontrolled stocking density linked to increasing demographic pressure and (2) development and intensification of arable cropping sectors within large irrigated perimeters based on mono-cropping systems directly linked with market pressure but leading to important negative impacts on environments. In between these two systems, there is space for development of more integrated crop-livestock systems based on a network of smallholder farms and susceptible to profit from synergies provided by diversification of production systems. The development of a local dairy production along the Senegal River, based on milk collection from a network of poor smallholder producers, is a relevant example of the accuracy of such a local integration across specialized sectors. The development of a pivotal forage resource based on alfalfa associated with arable cropping system should allow strong local synergies for (1) improving nutrition quality of local peoples by both nutritional complement production with leaf extracts and local dairy industry expansion and (2) improving agronomic and environmental performances of arable cropping systems. But beyond the technological, agronomic, and environmental benefits potentially provided by this integrated system, the socioeconomic conditions for its emergence and adoption have to be analyzed and promoted, which require further important studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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