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Adapting guidelines in the use of resources by the animals: improving performances, preserving balances?

Biophysical strengths and constraints, herd resources and productivity in pastoral systems, how to articulate pastoral practices and the multiple functionalities of the animal to the changes under way?

Access to quality pastures and water, a complex daily quest accentuated by livestock numbers growth and restrictions on access to the resources of pastoral areas that accompany rural and urban demographic changes. Increasing animal pressures on rainy season pastoral trails and around perennial water points in the dry season question both the adaptations of livestock management, the regulation of land access by local actors or the public policies on land use. The challenge of enhancing the large sylvo pastoral areas is therefore particularly relevant in terms of innovation capacities to understand, preserve or even improve the technical, economic and environmental balance between pastoralism and yje idea of performance. Agricultural developments at the periphery of the pastoral areas are sources of forage highly valuable by livestock, and in return the animals are a considerable source of organic fertilizing matter. In the management of resources, around the challenges of adapting to changes and mitigating the effects of uses, in the developments to be considered for the future, the dialectic between preserving ecological balances and improving productive performances is sometimes synergistic and sometimes contradictory . The approach of solutions varies according to the scales, the objects, the space, the time and the perceptions of the actors in the territories. In the face of change, the rights and capacities of "mobility", activities, resources, people and animals are often at the heart of adaptation strategies. Mobility is little questioned as such in its possible contributions to the mitigation of the changes oor effects of changes.

In the currents of changes: what technical and organizational innovations for pastoralism? What resource management practices? What technical developments imagine? What strategies for sustainable intensification and increased efficiency in productivity development? What integrated management of water and silvopastoral routes? ...