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Workshop 3.1 Farming Systems’ adaptation to climate change depending on the farmers' objectives and adjustments. Finally, public policies to accompany these changes are considered. Several animal species in the same farm: is that a system from the past or an innovation for the future, face to uncertainty? Sylvie Cournut and Stephane Ingrand UMR Métafort, France Sylvie.Cournut@vetagro-sup.fr The climatic changes which regularly undergo the breeders bring the researchers to analyse the configurations of breeding systems allowing to reduce their sensibility to the disturbances of the environment. The diversity of animals constituting the herd, allowed by the association of two species of ruminant animals on the same farm, is a track of research, assuming it allows flexibility, adjustments in the use of available resources, thanks to the different and complementary capacities from every animal category, especially for the land use. The management by the breeder of competitions and complementarities existing between two herds of different species, in the particular case of our study, dairy cows and meat sheep, thus appears as particularly interesting to analyze. Inquiries with eighteen mixed farms breeding dairy cows and meat sheep of Massif Central were realized. They were used as a basis to the construction of a typology of functioning, which reports interactions between animal diversity (species and batches) and variety of the available resources, on which the breeder can act and which are a source of flexibility for his system. Four logics of functioning were identified and characterized. These logics fairly differ on the spatial configuration of grazing and on the level of intensification of surfaces. 58
Workshop 3.2 Succession in farming and new forms of business operations – systemic understandings and new approaches to farming transitions Convenor: Ruth Nettle In part, sustainability in farming relies on people willing to work or invest in farming land or in farming operations. There are different pathways for people to enter and exit farming. Globally, the systems of transitions in farming are changing. Land prices, agricultural investment markets, new generations’ motivation to farm, growing urbanisation and expanding scale of farming are influencing the pathways and possibilities for people to enter, stay or exit farming. It is timely to explore the issues associated with these changes and the responses and emerging innovation. Social isolation among young farmers in Quebec, Canada Diane Parent University Laval Québec, Canada Diane.Parent@fsaa.ulaval.ca What is the social reality of young farmers? How, and to what extent, does emerging farmers' future in agriculture impact on their level of isolation and emotional lives? What are the characteristics of the social and professional networks of young farmers in Quebec and what are the characteristics of the social support? And more broadly, what is the impact of the social isolation on the maintenance and renewal of family farms? These are the questions that led us to conduct a survey completed by 407 young farmers. We present a typology of social contacts created by crossing data measuring the size of the social networks and the feeling of loneliness. Four categories are presented: the socially competent group (41%), the solitary group (27%), the socially inhibited group (16%), and the last, most problematic, the socially isolated group, composed of the 15% of young farmers who, in addition to having a small social network, have a strong feeling of loneliness. We note that social isolation is related, among others, with the level of education, the single-couple situation, the relations with neighbors and the number of working hours. We also noted that social isolation does not necessarily mean geographically far apart. Understanding the diversity of farms’ pathways as a co-evolution between family organisations and farming system pathways: a framework Médulline Terrier, Sophie Madelrieux and Benoît Dedieu IRSTEA, France Medulline.Terrier@irstea.fr Despite important changes in the French agricultural world over the past 6 decades, agriculture remains family-based. Thus the operation of the farm remains organically linked to family’s functioning, so that the family organisation and its evolution both imply choices and compromises on the way the farm is managed and on everyone’s position on and off the farm. Reciprocally the farm management has consequences on the family and on people’s life paths. Whereas Rural Sociology has focused on family arrangements on the farms, Agricultural sciences propose theories to analyse the farms’ functioning. For that reason, it is a real challenge to link within a holistic understanding the farms’ and the families’ functioning. To qualify long term co-evolution of family and farm over a generation, we propose an analysis framework of the articulation between family and farm, based on 7 case studies conducted on dairy cattle farms in Vercors (a mountain area, France). In each farm, we carried out interviews with each family member working on the farm. That allowed us to grasp the diversity of representations within families and to reconstitute the farms’ structural, technical, and commercial pathway. Using the two concepts of descent group and domestic group borrowed from the Anthropology of kinship, we explore the various impacts that property and skills transmission have on farms’ pathways (ranging 59
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