Date: 26 August ‘07; 14:00 - 18:00 hours

Chairperson: A. Bernués (ES)

Theatre Session 13

• Farmers’ decisions: it is not only profit and production that counts
  Oosting, S.J. and B.B. Bock
• Representing farmers’ objectives in integrated models: trying to hit a moving target for agricultural development
  Thornton, P.K.
• A proposal of a grid to analyse farmers’ informational activity
  Magne, M.-A., S. Ingrand and M. Cerf
• Management tools coupled with a database to support dairy farmers in decision making
  Karsten, S., E. Stamer, E. Kramer, W. Junge and E. Kalm
• Multipurpose fodder trees in the Ethiopian highlands: farmers preference and relationship of indigenous knowledge of feed value with laboratory indicators
  Mekoya, A., S.J. Oosting, S. Fernandez-Rivera and A.J. Van Der Zijpp
• Differences of technology adoption and objectives of mountain cattle farmers depending on continuity prospects
  Olaizola, A.M., A. García-Martínez and A. Bernués
• Low stocking rate as a source of flexibility in beef-farming systems. The analysis of a 15-year trajectory for seven farms in the Limousin region
  Astigarraga, L. and S. Ingrand
• Choice of a suckler cattle farming system: a decision support tool confronted with the farmers’ behaviour
  Veysset, P., M. Lherm, D. Bébin and K. Bensaid
• Do labour productivity and work pace expectations affect reproduction management and performance in pig farms?
  Martel, G., J.-Y. Dourmad and B. Dedieu
• Dynamics of farming styles in pig farmers’ decision making in France
  Commandeur, M.A.M. and F. Casabianca