[REPORT] How is digital technology helping pastoral livestock farming?

The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. This is an opportunity to highlight these livestock-rearing systems, which make the most of natural resources, maintain the countryside and contribute to biodiversity and the resilience of local areas.

On the Larzac plateau, at an altitude of 800 metres, the INRAE experimental unit at La Fage uses digital tools to better describe and understand animals, resources and their environment.

GPS, motion sensors, autonomous weighing, water consumption monitoring, camera traps, weather stations, vegetation and soil characterisation… All these technologies enable data to be collected on the animals, the herd and their environment.

See below for a photo report illustrating the data journey, from collection to its impact on agroecology.

The experiments are being carried out as part of the AI-Herbage, PATASEL and WAIT4 projects, supported by the Agroecology and Digital Technology programme.

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[REPORT] How is digital technology helping pastoral livestock farming?

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