Organic-agriculture-friendly livestock systems

This operation is designed to identify, evaluate and share livestock agroecological practices that meet organic certification standards. This requires developing one or more “Pacific” pig farming models, integrating a free-range component, at various production scales (family, local, territorial) by setting technical and economic benchmarks. This sector should, through alley-crop rotation and promoting sanitary downtimes for pens, make it possible to grow tubers for human consumption and cereal and/or protein-rich crops for animal feed that can be certified as organic. In a view to strengthening cattle livestock’s resilience to the effects of climate change, pasture management should also open the way to organic certification of the meat so as to enhance livestock farmers’ practices.