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| Lefèvre, Vincent; Capitaine, Mathieu; Peigne, Joséphine; Roger-Estrade, Jean. |
| Organic agriculture is called upon to raise production to meet growing demand all the while ensuring the respect of the environment. In this context, improving the soil biological activity is crucial. Farmers are taking great interest in agroecological practices, such as conservation tillage associated with soil cover crops. The inclusion of these practices into current organic crop management systems calls for profound changes in the whole system.In this paper, we present aeight steps method to help farmers designing innovative prototypes of cropping systems. The method involves three design workshops, starting with a given decontextualized situation, before progressively integrating farmers‟ constraints. The method was run with two groups of six and... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Soil quality; Soil biology; Soil. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/26301/1/LefevreV_2013_CIAG_Vol32.pdf |
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| Boisdon, Isabelle; Capitaine, Mathieu. |
| Eight highland dairy farms in the French Massif Central (4 organic and 4 conventional) were surveyed from 2000 to 2005 to understand the forage system functioning and the specificities of organic farms. During this period two important droughts occurred, which highly affected the fodder self-sufficiency of the organic farms, having consequences on more than a year of production. The conventional farms were less affected than the organic ones, and the farmers developed varied strategies including a reduction of the LU and the use of more maize. To maintain the stability of the milk production, organic farms had to increase the reliance on external fodder resources. The lack of security forage stores can explain the sensitivity of these farms and their... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/11623/1/11623.pdf |
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