Évolution and changes in the Mediterranean sheep and goat sectors over the last decade, future challenges and prospects
Résumé
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.