From 19 to 21 March 2024, the RMT SPICEE (French national network ‘Structure and Produce Innovations for Crops and Livestock Together’) organised a symposium on crop-livestock systems, in the broadest sense of the term, entitled ‘Crop-livestock interactions, levers for agricultural resilience facing the crises of the 21st century’. The event was held on the campus of the Institut Agro in Montpellier. The aim of the colloquium was to consolidate the current dynamic of exchange on crop-livestock systems by involving scientific, professional, training and advisory players, as well as institutional bodies.
Oral presentations and testimonials covered 3 themes:
- Theme 1: Deploying a circular economy between animal and plant sectors on a regional scale: dreams, realities, conditions for implementation,
- Theme 2: Building and assessing systems that combine crops and livestock,
- Theme 3: Using original tools and methods in teaching and advisory to support the diversity of forms of crop-livestock integration.
All presentations and abstracts are available online: https://interactions-culture-elevage.colloque.inrae.fr/