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Crop-Livestock farming systems are a possible way of evolution of European agriculture. Indeed, we did the hypothesis that these mixed systems have many assets to solve environmental problems resulting from crop and livestock. For example, they can reduce dependence on external inputs through favored exchanges between productions, they are a source of bioenergy, they allow the agriculture to play an important role to mitigate the climate change through carbon sequestration and finally they gather favorable conditions for soil quality and biodiversity. We also did the hypothesis that these mixed systems will reinforce the competitiveness and the acceptability of the European agriculture because they match the expectations of the society for sustainable food systems and for new energy sources. Moreover, these MFS seemed to us well suited to a model of agriculture based on small farms capable of generating employment.

The module's objectives are :
- To define these systems
- To give some insights about the methodology for designing them
- To proceed to their in-depth assessment according to the three pillars of the sustainability
- To draw some recommendations for the policy-makers