Les paysages de grande culture et les bords de route

Abstract

In recent years large-scale cropland landscapes have undergone drastic changes in terms of land cover which, combined with the development of road networks, make roadsides a potential habitat and corridor for many species. In order to enhance these new functions differentiated management is applied by public management administrations, which raises concerns on the part of farmers with plots bordering roads about risks due to weeds inducing the agricultural management of roadsides. The objective of this article is to study these management methods and the perceptions farmers have of roadsides by relating them to the characteristics of the landscape, the farms and the farming practices used on the cultivated plots bordering road networks. Our research demonstrates the existence of a link between the agricultural management and the different perceptions of roadsides and that both are associated with certain practices in cultivated fields. However, we have not noted any links with the landscape and farms characteristics.

Keywords

• planted surface areas
• farming practices
• farmers
• agricultural landscape
• textual analysis