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The paths to last in pastoral sheep farming in the Cevennes in France
- Source :
- Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Vol 68, Iss 2-3, Pp 87-92 (2016), Revue d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Revue d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 2016, 68 (2-3), pp.87. ⟨10.19182/remvt.20593⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- CIRAD, 2016.
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Abstract
- In a context of uncertainty of future conditions, which are the sustainable paths? We described the long-term action logics relied upon by the farmers to develop their farms or adapt them to their environment. These logics are based on choices related to increasing the farm size, specializing, the techniques used, marketing, production project debts, and technology incorporation. The data comes from sheep farms in the Cevennes, a pastoral Mediterranean region of Southern France, based on trajectory surveys of families, farming, and sheep management over 30 years (1982–2012). Although sheep farming hardly changed over this period, three different long-term action logics were identified: a clannish logic that gives the opportunity for the children to settle on the farm or nearby; a logic centered on sheep tradition with a focus on increasing the herd size; a multiphase logic, i.e. two or three successive sheep management types or combined household activities are explored. The identified action logics were similar to those described in other studies, except that they did not include logics based on increasing herd productivity by use of technologies, an option too removed from the kind of pastoralism practiced in the Cevennes.
- Subjects :
- sheep
media_common.quotation_subject
Pastoralism
Context (language use)
adaptation
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Agricultural science
Environmental protection
Debt
Mediterranean region
Productivity
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
media_common
lcsh:SF1-1100
2. Zero hunger
business.industry
LiFLOD 2011
General Medicine
sustainable livelihoods
Sheep farming
Geography
Agriculture
Herd
farming system
France
lcsh:Animal culture
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19516711 and 00351865
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d5509883c7f2c190ea9ae1e2f0b69369