Grasslands and herbivore production in Europe and effects of common policies

Download or read book Grasslands and herbivore production in Europe and effects of common policies written by Christian Huyghe and published by Quae. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European project Multisward (http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/) aims at supporting developments and innovations in grassland use and management in different European farming systems (including low-input and organic farming systems), pedoclimatic and socio-economic conditions i) to enhance the role of grasslands at farm and landscape levels to produce environmental goods and to limit the erosion of biodiversity and ii) to optimise economic, agronomic and nutritional advantages for the development of innovative and sustainable ruminant production systems. The identification of the innovations and their implementation required an exhaustive analysis of the state of grasslands and herbivore production in Europe including how they changed over decades. The effects of public policies were investigated. The results of this analysis are published in the present book. Conduit et financé par le projet européen Multisward, ce livre électronique en accès libre fait un état des lieux des prairies et cultures fourragères dans toute l’Europe en les resituant dans le système de production où elles sont intégrées, et en étudiant les déterminants techniques, économiques et réglementaires des évolutions passées et présentes. Abondamment illustré de cartes, il comporte également de nombreux cas concrets dans l’ensemble des régions européennes, témoignages d'agriculteurs et interviews d’acteurs clés.