Exploring the role of traditional management practices to cope with climate change in mountain areas

Abstract

Optimistic scenario: natural pasture quality and productivity increase, cow body condition score, feed self-sufficiency and gross margin improve by increasing the length of the grazing season. Medium scenario: farming indicators improve in the short-term and then return to current levels in the long-term. Adaptations worsen farm feed self-sufficiency and gross margin due to the shortened length of the grazing season. Worst scenario: sharp decrease in all indicators. Adaptations maintain herds nutritional state, but at lower farm feed self-sufficiency and gross margin

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3rd Mountain Livestock Farming Systems Meeting , Clermont-Ferrand, (Francia) 5-7 june 2024
AGROVOC subjects
Cambio climático
Clima de montaña
Sistemas de pastoreo
Biodiversidad

Other field subjects
Cambio climático
Explotación Agrícola Extensiva
Prácticas Ancestrales
Zona De Montaña

Sponsorship

Enrique Muñoz Ulecia thanks the Government of Aragon for the predoctoral contract supporting this research. H2020 GenTORE project No. 727213. Government of Aragón for Research Group Funds A26_23R and A25_23R.