Coll'Innov, a collective support approach for farmers to change their production systems

摘要

Integrated crop and livestock systems are seen as opportunities to tackle technical, environmental and social limitations of farms and territories' specialisation. Supporting and developing integrated crop-livestock systems require learning processes, new tools and procedures for farmers as well as for extension services. An innovative support is formalised in the Coll'Innov approach developed and tested within the research and development project "Complementarites cultures et elevage". ("Complementarities between crops and livestock'). Farmers are placed in active postures in order to successfully implement integrated crop-livestock practices on supported farms.