Poultry industry and the sustainable development of territories : what links? What conditions?

• Published in: Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food. 2010; Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food (ISDA), Montpellier, FRA, 2010-06-28-2010-07-01, 11 p
• Main Authors: Bonaudo, Thierry, Coutinho, Cassia, Poccard-Chapuis, René, Lescoat, Philippe, Lossouarn, Jean, Tourrand, Jean-François
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: CIRAD 2010
• Subjects: brésil; france; poultry farm; poultry industry; sustainability; territory

Les relations entre aviculture et territoire sont uniques en agriculture. Plusieurs raisons peuvent être données : les productions avicoles modernes sont considérées comme hors-sol, la filière est conduite par un opérateur industriel principal, et la production est facilement délocalisable. Pour caractériser la durabilité des basins de production nous nous sommes intéressés aux interactions entre la filière et le territoire. Pour cela, deux situations contrastées ont été étudiées, la France et le Brésil. Ce travail discute les principaux facteurs d’évaluation de la durabilité résultant de l'interaction entre filière avicole et territoire. The relations between poultry industry and territories are specific in agriculture. Several reasons can be given: modern poultry farms are considered as off-land, poultry productive chain is driven by major industrial operator, and relocating the production is easy. For a better understanding of the sustainability of agricultural territories, it can be helpful to characterize some interactions between the production chain and the territories. For that, two contrasted countries, France and Brazil were chosen and within each, one territory with significant poultry production are considered. The “poultry production territory” systems were studied and compared through a systemic approach. From this analysis, common features were obtained but also contrasted ones explaining, at least partially, the observed dynamics: positive in Brazil, less optimistic in France. However, sustainability should not be reduced to the economical growth and the other axis underlined that the double-sided impacts could also be found on the social or the environmental areas. A DPSIR model was used to understand and describe the changes in each system. As a main output, this work examines how the “poultry production territory” system took place and evolved in each case, and discusses the main factors to evaluate sustainability resulting from the interaction between poultry production chain and territories.