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Provedor de dados: | 21
País: | Germany
Título: | Assessment and comparisons of the environmental, economic and social  performances of organic and conventional cattle systems
Autores: | Pavie, Jérome; Chambaut, H.; Madeline, L.; Experton, Catherine.
Data: | 2013-11
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Production systems; Farm economics; Animal husbandry; Social aspects; Environmental aspects.
Resumo: | The main objective of "CedABio" was to estimate the environmental and socioeconomic benefits  anticipated in the bovine farming systems adopting an organic production mode. Beyond some obvious  advantages, the goal was to measure and ascertain the real contributions of a change to organic  farming for the dairy and beef farms. To lead this assessment, strong and technically accessible  indicators were selected, tested, and then looked for in 144 livestock farms, located in varied contexts to  take into account territorial diversity. Half of the farms were in organic mode. Their results are compared  with the other half producing in conventional mode, situated in the same zones, with similar structures.  The results and the observations performed in this network of commercial farms are completed by  additional measures on two experimental farms in organic production in the INRA station of Mirecourt in  J. Pavie et al.  28 Innovations Agronomiques 30 (2013), 27-40  dairy production and in Thorigné d’Anjou in beef production. The observations and studies took into  account three axes of the sustainability: environmental, economic and social. The environmental axis  includes the analysis of mineral balances, energy consumptions, biodiversity, gas emissions,  consumptions of sanitary and phytosanitary products as well as management of waste. The social axis  took into account workload and animal welfare. If some outputs confirmed results of previous works and  the anticipated profit of a conversion to organic farming, all do not show the same degree of interest for  a conversion to organic farming. Some elements of context, localization, quality of the surroundings,  levels of technical control observed in some conventional farms, reduce the interest expected from a  conversion to organic farming.
Tipo: | Journal paper

Identificador:

http://orgprints.org/26211/1/Pavie_2013_CIAG_Vol30.pdf

Pavie, Jérome; Chambaut, H.; Madeline, L.  and Experton, Catherine   (2013) Assessment and comparisons of the environmental, economic and social performances of organic and conventional cattle systems.  [Evaluations et comparaisons des performances environnementales, économiques et sociales des systèmes bovins biologiques et conventionnels dans le cadre du projet CedABio.]  Innovations Agronomiques, 30, pp. 27-40.

Relação: | http://orgprints.org/26211/
Formato: | application/pdf