Using a multicriteria assessment model to evaluate the sustainability of conservation agriculture at the cropping system level in France

Craheix, Damien; Angevin, Frédérique; Doré, Thierry; Tourdonnet, Stéphane de

doi:10.1016/j.eja.2016.02.002

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“…For instance, conservation agriculture based on minimum soil disturbance, retention of crop residues, continuous soil covering with vegetation or organic mulch, diversified crop rotation and plurispecific stands is a way to improve carbon sequestration in soils and nutrient cycling, reduce soil degradation, secure food production (especially in smallholders farms in the tropics), and exploit opportunities when offered by longer growing seasons (Brouder and GomezMacpherson, 2014;Giller et al, 2015;Craheix et al, 2016). By reducing soil erosion and nutrient leaching, conserving soil moisture, and increasing crop biodiversity, conservation agriculture could be a pillar of climate-smart agriculture in most parts of the world.…”

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Climate-smart cropping systems for temperate and tropical agriculture: mitigation, adaptation and trade-offs

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-Climate-smart cropping systems should be designed with three objectives: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, adapting to changing and fluctuating climate and environment, and securing food production sustainably. Agriculture can improve the net GHG emissions balance via three levers: less N 2 O, CH 4 and CO 2 emissions, more carbon storage, and green energy production (agrifuels, biogas). Reducing the application of mineral N fertilizer is the main option for reducing N 2 O emissions either directly or by increasing the proportion of legumes in the rotation. The most promising options for mitigating CH 4 emissions in paddy fields are based on mid-season drainage or intermittent irrigation. The second option is storing more carbon in soil and biomass by promoting no-tillage (less fuel, crop residues), sowing cover crops, introducing or maintaining grasslands and promoting agroforestry. Breeding for varieties better adapted to thermal shocks and drought is mainly suggested as long-term adaptation to climate change. Short-term strategies have been identified from current practices to take advantage of more favorable growing conditions or to offset negative impacts: shifting sowing dates, changing species, cultivars and crop rotations, modifying soil management and fertilization, introducing or expanding irrigation. Some crops could also move to more suitable locations. Model-based tools and site-specific technologies should be developed to optimize, support and secure farmer's decisions in a context of uncertainty and hazards. Most of the adaptation and mitigation options are going in the same way but tradeoffs will have to be addressed (e.g. increasing the part of legumes will be possible only with significant breeding efforts). This will be a challenge for designing cropping systems in a multifunctional perspective.

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Climate-smart cropping systems for temperate and tropical agriculture: mitigation, adaptation and trade-offs

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“…The sustainability of animal production systems has become a major issue over the last few years (Altieri, 2002;Brym and Reeve, 2016;Craheix et al, 2016;Tilman et al, 2002), emphasizing the need to optimize land-use, mitigate and adapt to climate change and to reduce biodiversity loss (Phalan et al, 2011;Seppelt and Voinov, 2002). Agro-pastoral systems play a pivotal role in this context (Soussana et al, 2014) as they must maximize the benefits provided to human society and the biosphere, such as food production and ecosystem functioning (Rey et al, 2015).…”

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A biodiversity-friendly rotational grazing system enhancing flower-visiting insect assemblages while maintaining animal and grassland productivity

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Farruggia

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Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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Highlights1. Biodiversity-friendly rotational grazing (BR) was applied using cattle and sheep 2. The BR increased the flower cover of the vegetation community 3. Butterfly and bumblebee abundance and diversity increased under BR as did cattle 4. Ground beetles were not affected by grazer species or BR 5. Herbage mass and animal performances were comparable with continuous grazing AbstractGrazing management is an important tool to preserve insect biodiversity. Although literature has discussed the importance of grazing pressure adjustment to support grassland insect communities for the ecosystem services they provide, little has been published on the economic sustainability of such management adjustments to date. This study compared continuous grazing (CG) to an innovative rotational grazing system (the biodiversity-friendly rotation -BR), where a subplot was excluded from grazing for two months during the main flowering period. The effects of grazing two different species (cattle and sheep) within both systems were also evaluated. The aims were to assess the effects on butterfly, bumblebee, and ground beetle assemblages, along with the impact on herbage mass and animal performance. The BR enhanced both the abundance and species richness of flower-visiting insect assemblages and it was observed that cattle provided better results than sheep grazing. A multivariate redundancy analysis highlighted that most of the flower-visiting species (including almost all the endangered and locally rare species) were favoured by BR-cattle treatment, mainly due to the high percentage of flower cover and sward heterogeneity involved in this treatment. However, grazing Page 3 of 29 system and grazer species did not affect ground beetle species richness or abundance. Moreover, herbage mass and animal performance (live weight and body condition score) were comparable between CG and BR throughout the grazing season. The BR could be a useful management system to enhance grassland flower-visiting insect assemblages whilst meeting farm production objectives, especially in protected environments where insect conservation is a major target.

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“…Multi-criteria methods have been used for quantitative evaluation of complex phenomena (Zavadskas et al, 2009;Žvirblis, Buračas, 2010;Baležentis, 2016 Craheix et al, 2016;Petit, Aubry, 2016;De Luca et al, 2017;Kamali et al, 2017). Multi-criteria methods integrate the values of the criteria describing a particular process and their weights into a single value.…”

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Evaluation of Technological, Economic and Social Indicators for Different Farming Practices in Lithuania

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Baležentis

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Using a multicriteria assessment model to evaluate the sustainability of conservation agriculture at the cropping system level in France

Cited by 62 publications

References 29 publications

Climate-smart cropping systems for temperate and tropical agriculture: mitigation, adaptation and trade-offs

Climate-smart cropping systems for temperate and tropical agriculture: mitigation, adaptation and trade-offs

A biodiversity-friendly rotational grazing system enhancing flower-visiting insect assemblages while maintaining animal and grassland productivity

Evaluation of Technological, Economic and Social Indicators for Different Farming Practices in Lithuania

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