Friday, September 14, 2012

PROGRAMME


8 October

Opening ceremony
16h – 17h
 
Welcome addresses and general presentation on (i) The low carbon agriculture Brazilian program (Elvison N. Ramos, MAPA, Brazil), (ii) Integrated crop-livestock system: EMBRAPA insights (Luiz Carlos Balbino, EMBRAPA) and (iii) Pampa biome and the low carbon agriculture initiatives (Davi T. Santos, SIA, Brazil)

Introduction Session

17h - 17h30
 
Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems - A way to reach compromise between agricultural production and environmental preservation?
Gilles LEMAIRE (INRA, France)

Alan FRANZLUEBBERS (USDA, USA)

Paulo CARVALHO (UFRGS, Brazil)

Benoît DEDIEU (INRA, France)

Mario HERRERO (ILRI, Kenya)

17h30 - 19h30
 
Examples of integrated systems in different geo-climatic conditions:

Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate and Sub-tropical Regions of North America
Reuben SULC (The Ohio State University, USA)

Alan FRANZLUEBBERS (USDA, USA)
 
·     Integration between cropping and livestock systems in temperate regions: Western Europe and South America.
Jean-Louis PEYRAUD (INRA, France)

Miguel TABOADA (INTA, Argentina)
 
  Interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas in North Africa
Tayeb AMEZIANE (INA Hassan II, Maroco)

Aïssa ABDELGUERFI (INA El Harrach, Algeria)
  Integration between livestock and cropping systems in sub-tropical regions in Brazil.
Anibal de MORAES (UFPR, Brazil)

Paulo CARVALHO (UFRGS, Brazil)
 
  Tropical regions in South America, Africa and Asia
M. HERRERO (ILRI, Kenya)

Manuel Claudio Motta MACEDO (EMBRAPA, Brazil)

René POCCARD-CHAPPUIS (CIRAD, France)
 
  Crop-livestock integration systems that improve production efficiency and environmental performance in Australia
Lindsay BELL (CSIRO, Australia)
Andrew MOORE (CSIRO, Australia)
John KIRKEGAARD (CSIRO, Australia)
Rick LLEWELYN (CSIRO, Australia)
 
19h30
 
Cocktail

 

9 October

Session I-1
Ecological and environmental processes from fields to landscape
Impacts of grassland areas on regulation of biogeochemical cycles and environmental fluxes.

8h30 - 9h
Coupled C and N cycles regulating soil greenhouse gases in (sub)tropical and temperate grasslands and cropping ecosystems.
Jeferson DIECKOW (UFPR, Brazi)
 
Cimélio BAYER (UFRGS, Brazil)
Allan FRANZLUEBBERS (USDA, USA)
Guillhermo STUDERT  (UNMdP, Argentine)

9h - 9h30
Trade-off between efficiency of herbage use for animal production and environmental impacts and consequence for grassland management systems.
Jean-François SOUSSANA (INRA - Paris, France)

Gilles LEMAIRE (INRA - Lusignan, France)
9h30 - 10h
 
 
break + posters
 
 

Session I-2
Spatial and temporal interactions between grasslands and arable crops for mitigation environmental impacts

10h - 10h30
Agronomic and environmental impacts of grassland-crop rotations.
Alan FRANZLUEBBERS (USDA, USA)

Jorge SAWCHIC (INIA, Uruguay)

10h30 – 11h

Contrasting the definition and management of critical source areas at catchment level in different farming systems: France and New Zealand.
Richard McDOWELL (Agresearch, NZ)
P. MOREAU (INRA, AgroCampus Ouest, France)
J. SALMON-MONVIOLA (INRA, AgroCampus Ouest, France)
P. DURAND (INRA, AgroCampus Ouest, France)
Philippe LETERME (AgroCampus Ouest, Rennes, France)
Philippe MEROT (INRA, France)
 
11h - 12h
 
4 offered papers
12h - 14h30
 
lunch

Session I-3
Role of grassland areas for maintaining and enhancing biodiversity within arable cropping systems

14h30 - 15h00

Importance of the functional dimension of biodiversity in grassland ecosystems.

Michel DURU (INRA, France)
Xavier LEROUX (CNRS-INRA, France)
Pablo CRUZ, (INRA Toulouse, France)

15h – 15h30
 
Managing grasslands biodiversity at a landscape level to foster ecosystem services in intensive cereal systems: from ecological knowledge to collective action
Vincent BRETAGNOLLE (CEBC-CNRS, France)
Elsa BERTHET (Mines ParisTech, France)
15h30 - 16h30
 
4 offered papers (15')
16h30 - 17h
 
break

Session II-1
Integration between Livestock and Arable Cropping system

How introduction of cropping system areas could allow a more sustainable exploitation of natural grassland ecosystems?

17h - 17h30h

Crop and livestock interfaces through farmers’ practices adaptations at short and long term.
Benoît DEDIEU (INRA - Metafort, France)
A. HAVET (INRA, France)
Xavier COQUIL (INRA, France)
J.C. FIORELLI (INRA, France)
A.  GIBON (INRA, France)
G. MARTEL (INRA, France)
B. ROCHE (INRA, France)
J. RYSCHAWY (INRA, France)
N. SCHALLER (INRA, France)

17h30 – 18h
 
Towards a more sustainable use of natural vegetation through introduction of intensified forage resources.
Carlos NABINGER (UFRGS, Brazil)
Elbio BERRETA (INTA, Uruguay)
 
 

 

10 October

Mid-tour (UFRGS Experimental Station + Farm systems)

 

11 October

Session II-2
How to conceive and to evaluate integrated systems with multi-objectives?

8h30 - 9h
 
Importance of decision model in whole farm models to evaluate crop-livestock systems impacts on the environment: example of MELODIE
Philippe FAVERDIN (INRA, France)
X. CHARDON (INRA, France)
C. RIGOLOT (INRA, France)
P. DURAND (INRA, France)
P. MOREAU (INRA, France)
C. BARATTE (INRA, France)
B. BIQUEMAL (INRA, France)
F. GARCIA (INRA, France)
R. MARTIN-CLOUAIRE (INRA, France)
S. ESPAGNOL (IFIP, France)
A. LE GALL (Institut de l’Elevage, France)
 


9h00 - 10h00
 
4 offered papers
10h00 - 10h30
 
break

Session II-3
Decision making tools for management of integrated systems and knowledge accumulation and dissemination

10h30 - 11h
Learning autonomy in crop – livestock systems
Xavier COQUIL (INRA - ASTER, France)
Pascal Béguin (IETL, France)
Benoît Dedieu (INRA, France)
11h - 12h
 
4 offered papers (15')
12h - 14h
 
lunch

Session III
Long Term Experimental Platforms for quantification and prediction of impacts of land use and climate changes

14h - 14h30
Integrated Infrastructure for terrestrial Ecosystem research: Breaking new ground.
Abad CHABBI (INRA - Lusignan, France)



14h30 – 15h
 
Long Term Experiments in Agronomy towards a system based approach
Andres QUINCKE (INIA - La Estanzuela, Uruguay)

Fernando GARCIA-PRECHAC (INIA, Uruguay)

15h – 15h30
 
Integrative long-term socio-ecological research: opportunities for a better management of agricultural landscapes
Marc DECONCHAT (INRA, France)
Annick GIBON (INRA, France)
Ted GRAGSON (University of Georgia, USA)
Annie Ouin (Université de Toulouse)
Anne Sourdril (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
Gérard BALENT (INRA – Toulouse, France)


15h30 - 16h30
 
4 offered papers (15')
16h30 – 17h
 
break

Session IV-1
From farms to landscape and region: which management and which governance for Livestock-Agriculture integration?

Complementarities and synergies between different land use and management systems with economic and social perspectives

17h - 17h30h
An international comparison of changes in crop-livestock systems at the landscape level show common global drivers but specific combinations of local impacts.
Alexandre ICKOWICZ (CIRAD SELMET, France)
A. BAH (PPZS/UMI UMMISCO, Senegal)
J-F. TOURRAND (Cirad, France)
I. TOURRE (Cirad, France)
P.BOMMEL (Cirad, Brazil)
A. GIBON (INRA, France)
JP CHOISIS (INRA, France)
J.LASSEUR (INRA, France)
M.ETIENNE (INRA, France)
H. MORALES (Instituto Plan Agropecuario, Uruguay)
 
 

 

12 October

Session IV-2
Environmental and Ecological Services provided by the integration of Livestock and Agriculture : a socio-économic approach

8h30 - 9h
 
Rural development experiences in the Pampas including ecosystem services: land use planning in Balcarce township  and  the “Rangeland Meats” Program.
F.A. MILANO (Fac. Cs. Veterinarias e Instituto Ecosistemas, Argentine)
G.D.MARINO (Proyecto Alianza del Pastizal, Argentina)
N.O. MACEIRA (INTA, Argentina)
C.L.M. BERROUET (INTA, Argentina)
P. ROCALLOSA (Proyecto Alianza del Pastizal, Uruguay)
C. MORALES(Guyra Paraguay, Paraguay)
R. JAWORSKY dos SANTOS (BirdLife/SAVE, Brazil)
I. ANGARITA (Proyecto Alianza del Pastizal)
R. CLAY (BirdLife International)
 
 

Session IV-3
The question of land uses and soil disposal at territory level

9h – 9h30
Territorial governance for agriculture and alternative land-uses
André TORRE (INRA-SAD, France)
9h30 - 10h
break
10h - 11h
 
4 offered papers (15')

Closure ceremony

11h - 12h
Integrating Crops, Livestock, and Tree: Agropastoral Systems back by popular demand.
Caterina BATELLO (FAO, Italy)

Constance NEELY (FAO, Italy)