Combining systemic and pragmatic approaches for the holistic diagnosis of a farm in agroecological transition in a health context
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Introduction: Today, agriculture and livestock farming are facing environmental, social and health challenges. The agroecological transition is a possible response to these challenges. It requires changes in practices but also an evolution in farmers' ways of thinking and relationships with living things. Some diagnostics of farms, such as the global analysis of farms, behaviors and practices. Methods: We therefore propose a holistic approach combining a global analysis of farms and a pragmatic approach to understand the functioning of agricultural production systems. This pragmatic turn enables to integrate the ways in which the farmer's reality is established, the performance of the system, the associated metrics and the farmer's relationship with life. Results and discussion: Using the example of a farm in transition, we show that it is the combination researcher's stance and allows for a renewed dialogue between research and farmers in the field.
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The primary goal of farmers in producing their own hay or moving herds to pasture is to provide the best quality fiber for their animals and maintain the health of their grasslands.
“Indeed, the primary goal of farmers in producing their own hay or moving herds to pasture is to provide the best quality fiber for their animals and maintain the health of their grasslands (Table 3) [27], overcoming potentially lower yields due to high biodiversity of mountain grasslands [25].”
From Grassland-Based Farming Systems Targeting Agroecology: Which Indicators Should Be Used for On-Farm Assessment? (2025) · cites this paper as [27]
The Forage and crop system section says that M. Henri uses cutting and rotational grazing to balance forage quality, animal health, and grassland health. The Results section also says that animal care is his main concern and that he tends grassland partly to maintain animal health. These findings concern one farmer; they do not establish that farmers generally have a primary goal of providing the best-quality fiber through haymaking or grazing. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Indeed, the primary goal of farmers in producing their own hay or moving herds to pasture is to provide the best quality fiber for their animals and maintain the health of their grasslands (Table 3) [27], overcoming potentially lower yields due to high biodiversity of mountain grasslands [25].”
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- Cremilleux, M., Michaud, A., Cayre, P., Martin, B., Rigolot, C., & Michelin, Y.
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- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
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- Keywords
- agroecological transition, farm diagnosis, holistic approach, pragmatic turn, agricultural production systems, farmer practices, animal husbandry
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