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Junior research scientist in the design and modeling of agroecological livestock systems
CR-2023-PHASE-4 - The Joint Research Unit “Herbivores”, located on the Theix site in Saint-Genès-Champanelle near Clermont-Ferrand, conducts research into economically and environmentally efficient herbivore farming, making use of forage and other resources not used for human consumption. Within this unit, you will join the multidisciplinary "Comete" team (Design, modelling and evaluation of herbivore breeding systems), which is made up of about twenty INRAE and VetAgro-Sup agents, economists, zootechnicians and statisticians. The 'Comete' team favours a systemic approach to understand, analyse and evaluate the multi-performance of grassland and mixed crop-livestock farms as well as the provision of ecosystem services within the framework of agroecology. Within this team and by developing your network in France, Europe and abroad, you will be in charge of studying the production of services (in particular production and regulation services) by grassland farming agroecosystems, from cellulosic resources that are not in competition with human food, within the framework of agroecology and the impacts at the farm and territorial scales (productive and environmental impacts, including CO2 emissions). Your starting hypothesis will be that circularity of flows (food resources, effluents, etc.) should be favoured to maximise the production of services in a given territory, in connection with sustainable diets at the scale of this territory. You will develop a modelling approach that will support the design and evaluation of livestock systems that maximise animal/plant complementarity, with a view to producing services, reducing losses to the environment and studying trade-offs between services. Your work and results are therefore expected to contribute to the definition of the most efficient modalities for the agroecological transition of current livestock systems. To do so, you will adopt a multidisciplinary approach by developing collaborations with colleagues from other disciplines than livestock farming, such as agronomy (crop systems), but also social sciences.
