1. Évolution and changes in the Mediterranean sheep and goat sectors over the last decade, future challenges and prospects
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Jean-Pierre Boutonnet, Aden Hassan, Mouad Chentouf, Jean-Paul Dubeuf, Yolanda Mena, Filipe Pacheco, ProdInra, Migration, Systèmes d'élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux (UMR SELMET), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas [Syrie] (ICARDA), Laboratoire de Recherches sur le Développement de l'Elevage (LRDE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Universidad de Sevilla, Direcção Regional de Agricultura e Pescas do Norte (DRAP), and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)
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[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,animal diseases ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,[INFO] Computer Science [cs] ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences - Abstract
National audience; Sheep and goat sectors around the Mediterranean Basin show some permanent and common traits: -1: Sheep and goats are an identity trait of the Mediterranean area: their proportion in the domestic farm livestock is high. -2: Sheep and goats in the Mediterranean are farmed under pastoral systems (range land is a significant part of the feed). As they are able to graze under harsh conditions, they contribute in aintaining the range landscape and maintaining people in very remote and difficult areas. Pastoralism plays a strategic role in the occupation of the territories.