Management strategies that harness the adaptive capacities of small ruminants to improve herd resilience and efficiency Presentation of the ADAPT-HERD project

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Joint Meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM Network for Research and Development in Sheep and Goats (Subnetworks on Nutrition and Production Systems) and the FAO-CIHEAM Subnetwork for the

Research and Development of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Resources Réunion conjointe du Réseau FAO-CIHEAM de Recherche et Développement sur les Ovins et les Caprins (sous-réseaux Nutrition et Systèmes de Production) et du sous-réseau FAO-CIHEAM

de Recherche et Développement sur les Pâturages et Fourrages Méditerranéens

Efficiency and resilience of forage resources and small ruminant

production to cope with global challenges in Mediterranean areas

Efficience et résilience des ressources fourragères et de

production de petits ruminants pour affronter les défis globaux

dans la région méditerranéenne

Ecole Nationale d’Agriculture de Meknès, Morocco, 23 - 25 October 2019

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS – LIVRE DE RESUMÉS

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Book of Abstracts – Livre de Résumés

1st_{Joint Meeting, FAO-CIHEAM Networks on Sheep and Goats and on Mediterranean Pastures}

1ére_{Réunion Conjointe des Réseaux FAO-CIHEAM sur les Ovins et les Caprins et sur les Pâturages méditerranéens}

Meknès, Morocco/Maroc, 23-25 Oct 2019

Organisateurs

Avec la collaboration de

Comité Scientifique

A. Araba, IAV Hassan II, Maroc A. López-Francos, IAMZ-CIHEAM, Espagne 6$WHV2UHJRQ6WDWH8QLY(WDWV8QLVG¶$PpULTXH G. Luciano, Univ. Catania, Italie

A. Bernués, CITA- Aragón, Espagne D. Martín Collado, CITA- Aragón, Espagne M. Bengoumi, FAO-SNE, Tunisie Y. Mena, Univ. Sevilla, Espagne H. Ben Salem, INRAT, Tunisie E. Molina-Alcaide, EEZ-CSIC, Espagne I. Casasús, CITA- Aragón, Espagne G. Moreno, Univ. Extremadura, Espagne M. Chentouf, INRA, Maroc M. Mounsif, ENA-Meknès, Maroc P. de Frutos, CSIC, Espagne M. Napoléone, INRA, France

A. de Vega, Univ. Zaragoza, Espagne P. Nichols, Univ. Western Australia, Australie P. Gaspar, Univ. Extremadura, Espagne C. Ovalle, INIA, Chili

S. Giger-Reverdin, AgroParisTech, France F. Pacheco, DRAP-Norte, Portugal I. Hadjigeorgiou, Agr. Univ. Athens, Grèce C. Porqueddu, CNR-ISPAAM, Italie M. Jouven, SupAgro, France A. Priolo, Univerity of Catania, Italie A. Keli, ENA-Meknès, Maroc M. Rekik, ICARDA, Tunisie

A. Kyriazopoulos, Democritus U. Thrace, Grèce P. Swanepoel, Stellenbosch Univ., Afrique du Sud L. López Marco, IAMZ-CIHEAM, Espagne D. Yáñez, CSIC, Espagne

A. Zoghlami, INRAT, Tunisie

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A. Keli, ENA-Meknés, Maroc (Convener)

M. Mounsif, ENA-Meknès, Maroc M. Jouven, SupAgro, France C. Porqueddu, CNR-ISPAAM, Italy H. Ben Salem, INRAT, Tunisia M. Bengoumi, FAO-SNE, Tunisia B. Archa, ENA-Meknès, Maroc A. Tijani, ENA-Meknès, Maroc

A.Aboudrare, ENA-Meknès, Maroc A.López-Francos, IAMZ-CIHEAM, Spain L. López Marco, IAMZ-CIHEAM, Spain A. Araba, IAV Hassan II, Maroc M. Chentouf, INRA, Maroc M. Falaki, ENA-Meknès, Maroc S. El Kadili, ENA-Meknès, Maroc N. Mokhtari, ENA-Meknès, Morocco iSAGE a bénéficié d'un financement au titre du programme-cadre de l'Union européenne pour la recherche et l'innovation H2020 sous le numéro de subvention 679302

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Management strategies that harness the adaptive

capacities of small ruminants to improve

herd resilience and efficiency

Presentation of the ADAPT-HERD project

L. Puillet1, A. Aboul-Naga2, N. Atti3, F. Douhard4, N.C. Friggens5, E. Gonzalez-Garcia6, M. Joy7_{, A. Mohamed}8_{and H. Valls-Fox}9

1_{UMR Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants, INRA, AgroParisTech,}

Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France

2_{Animal Production Research Institute (APRI), Agriculture Research Centre (ARC),} Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt

3_{INRA-Tunisia, Animal and Forage Productions Laboratory,University of Carthage, 2049 Ariana, Tunisi}

4_{UMR GenPhyse, INRA, Toulouse, France}

5_{UMR Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants, INRA,}

AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, Franc 6_{UMR Selmet, INRA, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France}

7_{Unidad de Tecnología en Producción Animal. CITA de Aragón} Avda de Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain

8_{ESAK, Le Kef, Tunisia}

9_{UMR Selmet, INRA, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France}

Abstract. The main effect of climate change on livestock production systems in the Mediterranean area is to

induce changes in feed resource availability. In face of constraining and changing environmental conditions, the challenge is to find practical solutions for herd management to minimize farmer’s risk. These solutions should be good enough in terms of efficiency (E), to ensure sufficient income, and good enough in terms of resilience (R), to ensure farm sustainability. The objective of the ADAPT-HERD project is to develop simula-tion tools capable of evaluating the consequences of management strategies at the herd level, under con-trasting and varying environments (Egypt, France, Spain and Tunisia). Our approach considers that biologi-cal adaptive capacities of small ruminants can be fully integrated within management strategies to improve R and E by: i) using reproduction practices that provide the best match between herd demand and feed sup-ply; ii) managing groups of animals based on their adaptive capacities (targeting interventions) and iii) man-aging herd demography to adapt animal numbers to future feed resources. The project will implement data acquisition at animal level (fine-grained experiments on adaptive capacities and phenotyping of local breeds) and at production system level (herd management, feed resource, climate and market conditions). Data will be combined and used in computer simulations to explore different climate change scenarios and manage-ment strategies and evaluate their effects on herd R and E. Interfacing modelling tools will be a key aspect of the project, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration, especially with ongoing projects focusing on genetic selection and breeding solutions to improve R&E in small ruminants.

Keywords. Resilience – Efficiency – Climate change – Modelling.

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Book of Abstracts – Livre de Résumés

1st_{Joint Meeting, FAO-CIHEAM Networks on Sheep and Goats and on Mediterranean Pastures}

1ére_{Réunion Conjointe des Réseaux FAO-CIHEAM sur les Ovins et les Caprins et sur les Pâturages méditerranéens}