Principles, barriers and enablers to agroecological animal production systems: a qualitative approach based on five case studies

作者：Bertrand Dumont, Carla Barlagne, Pauline Cassart, Julie Duval, Audrey Fanchone, Jean-Luc Gourdine, Olivier Huguenin‐Elie, Yanka Kazakova-Mateva, Julie Klötzli, A. Lüscher, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas, Dominique Pomiès, Marta G. Rivera‐Ferre, W.A.H. Rossing, Vyara Stefanova, Adrien Swartebroeckx, Cecilia Zagaria · 发表于：animal · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.animal.2024.101367 · 被引用次数：16 · 研究领域：Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact、Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development、Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Agroecology is among the most promising options to alleviate the negative impacts of animal farming on the environment and build local food systems based on ethically acceptable production methods. So far, most of the research on agroecological animal production systems was conducted at farm scale, and the potential of agroecological principles addressing social dimensions and food system-level approaches has been underexplored. Here, we analyse how the whole set of agroecological principles was mobilised in five case studies on grassland-based, silvopastoral or integrated crop-livestock systems in Switzerland, Guadeloupe, French uplands, Bulgaria and Andalucía. Following a multilevel perspective, we propose a new eight-category framework to categorise barriers and enablers in these different socioecological contexts, and discuss the implications of these results for scaling out and scaling up agroecological niche innovations in animal production areas. Though we could observe activities related to each agroecological principle in each case study, the relative importance of each principle differed. For instance, in Switzerland, the focus was on ecological processes operating in multispecies mixtures, and therefore on mobilising principles of input reduction, synergy, soil health and biodiversity, while in Andalucía, a civil society organisation, a regional agricultural office, researchers, and farmers mainly mobilised transformational principles at the food system level, e.g....