Livestock is a major actor of rural landscape and economics across Europe. It has however focused various controversies as regards to its environmental impacts, and the consequences of industrial production systems on animal welfare. Bundles of services account for both livestock positive and negative effects that simultaneously occur within territories. Mapping ecosystem services at a large scale (from landscape to the European Union) reveals a frequent antagonism between provisioning services on the one hand, and regulating and cultural services on the other hand. These maps mostly account for the impacts and services provided by the main farming systems in each area. Analyzing trade-offs at a finer scale (from plot to landscape) reveals various opportunities to achieve 'win-win' situations that would preserve the environment while maintaining provisioning services. These are based on non-linear relationships between ecosystem services, grazing periods, spatial heterogeneity, system diversification, and organizational innovations between farming systems of a given area. Scenario exploration allows representing alternative dynamics for the European livestock sector in response to climate change, land use change resulting from shifts in livestock feeding, and/or a drop in animal protein consumption across Europe. We conclude by pointing out key research issues that would allow valuing the diversity of services provided by the livestock sector.
Les interrelations entre les impacts et les services rendus par l’élevage impliquent de ne pas considérer ces effets indépendamment les uns des autres. Dans cet article, nous analysons les approches qui permettent de décrire et d’analyser les bouquets de services fournis par l’élevage dans différents types de territoires. Nous proposons des pistes de recherche à approfondir afin de mieux valoriser ces différents services.
Livestock is a major actor of rural landscape and economics across Europe. It has however focused various controversies as regards to its environmental impacts, and the consequences of industrial production systems on animal welfare. Bundles of services account for both livestock positive and negative effects that simultaneously occur within territories. Mapping ecosystem services at a large scale (from landscape to the European Union) reveals a frequent antagonism between provisioning services on the one hand, and regulating and cultural services on the other hand. These maps mostly account for the impacts and services provided by the main farming systems in each area. Analyzing trade-offs at a finer scale (from plot to landscape) reveals various opportunities to achieve 'win-win' situations that would preserve the environment while maintaining provisioning services. These are based on non-linear relationships between ecosystem services, grazing periods, spatial heterogeneity, system diversification, and organizational innovations between farming systems of a given area. Scenario exploration allows representing alternative dynamics for the European livestock sector in response to climate change, land use change resulting from shifts in livestock feeding, and/or a drop in animal protein consumption across Europe. We conclude by pointing out key research issues that would allow valuing the diversity of services provided by the livestock sector.
fr
Les interrelations entre les impacts et les services rendus par l’élevage impliquent de ne pas considérer ces effets indépendamment les uns des autres. Dans cet article, nous analysons les approches qui permettent de décrire et d’analyser les bouquets de services fournis par l’élevage dans différents types de territoires. Nous proposons des pistes de recherche à approfondir afin de mieux valoriser ces différents services.
Titre
en
Bundles of services make it possible to identify trade-offs and options for livestock production areas
fr
Les bouquets de services, un concept clé pour raisonner l'avenir des territoires d'élevage
Auteur(s)
Bertrand Dumont1
, Rodolphe Sabatier2
, Julie Ryschawy3
, M. Duru3
, Marc Benoit1
, Luc Delaby4
, Jean-Yves Dourmad4
, Bertrand Méda5
, D. Vollet6
1
UMRH -
Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213
( 37762 )
- INRA / Site de Theix / 63122 Saint-Genès-Champanelle
- France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UMR1213 ( 92114 )
;
VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement UMR1213 ( 301767 )
2
AgroParisTech
( 148117 )
- 22 place de l'Agronomie CS 20040 91123 Palaiseau cedex
- France
3
AGIR -
AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires
( 74637 )
- Centre de Recherches INRA de Toulouse Chemin de Borderouge 31326 CASTANET TOLOSAN
- France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UMR1248 ( 92114 )
;
Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) ( 448187 )
;
Université de Toulouse ( 443875 )
4
PEGASE -
Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes]
( 187318 )
- 16, le Clos 35590 Saint-Gilles
- France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UMR1348 ( 92114 )
;
AGROCAMPUS OUEST ( 108028 )
5
URA -
Unité de Recherches Avicoles
( 135350 )
- Nouzilly
- France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UR0083 ( 92114 )
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UMR1273 ( 92114 )
;
AgroParisTech ( 148117 )
;
VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement ( 301767 )
;
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture UMR1273 ( 302049 )
;
Bertrand Dumont, Rodolphe Sabatier, Julie Ryschawy, M. Duru, Marc Benoit, et al.. Les bouquets de services, un concept clé pour raisonner l'avenir des territoires d'élevage. INRA Productions Animales, 2017, l'élevage en Europe : une diversité de services et d'impacts, 30 (4), pp.407-422. ⟨10.20870/productions-animales.2017.30.4.2271⟩. ⟨hal-01871703⟩