2010
DOI: 10.4000/rga.1307
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Attitudes of livestock farmers and sensitivity of livestock farming systems to drought conditions in the French Alps

Abstract: Livestock farming systems in the French Alps are particularly exposed to the predicted climate change and most of them have already experienced periods of drought since the beginning of the 2000s. Faced with this risk, livestock farmers have put in place a certain number of measures and envisage introducing others in the future. For the present study, surveys were conducted among livestock farmers to identify these measures and analyses were carried out to characterise the attitudes of livestock farmers to dro… Show more

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“…Such small changes in land management, even under the most severe scenario, were due to constraints specific to high-mountain environments (18), which limited options for diversification of management practices. More contrasted results may be expected in other farming systems where less productive grasslands are abandoned and where conversion from more intensive artificial and fertilized grassland or crops (e.g., maize) to grasslands is possible (19,20), leading to stronger direct drought effects on land management.…”
Section: Direct Andmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…Such small changes in land management, even under the most severe scenario, were due to constraints specific to high-mountain environments (18), which limited options for diversification of management practices. More contrasted results may be expected in other farming systems where less productive grasslands are abandoned and where conversion from more intensive artificial and fertilized grassland or crops (e.g., maize) to grasslands is possible (19,20), leading to stronger direct drought effects on land management.…”
Section: Direct Andmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Over the last decades, several droughts have temporarily halved forage production. Farmers adapted their practices by purchasing fodder, which in turn fosters a conversion from mowing to grazing (20).…”
Section: Study Site and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…) and domestic herbivores' summer mass gain (Nettier et al. ). Long‐term observational and experimental studies accounting for plant community, site differences and focusing on multiple plant traits (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…De ce fait, les alpages apparaissent particulièrement vulnérables au changement climatique (Engler et al 2011). Ainsi les alpages peuvent être considérés comme des espaces prioritaires pour l'adaptation au changement climatique, mais cette adaptation sur les alpages nécessite de s'intéresser aussi aux exploitations utilisatrices des alpages, puisque des marges de manoeuvre peuvent être trouvées à l'interaction entre l'alpage et les exploitations (Nettier et al 2010, Rigolot et al 2014.…”
Section: / Traiter De L'adaptation Au Changement Climatique Sur Les Aunclassified