Beef and Sheep Conference, June 09-16, 2016

Interchange of points of view in beef and sheep productionKoldo Osoro Otaduy. Area of Research in Animal Production Systems

Production profitabilityCompetitivenessCommercialisationSustainabilityEcosystem Services

SUSTAINABILITY

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Period 1 Period 2 Overall Period 1 Period 2 Overall Period 1 Period 1

Cattle Horse Sheep Goat

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MADRES CRÍASVariaci

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GM vacuno equino ovino caprino

Periodo 1 Periodo 2 Global Periodo 1 Periodo 2 Global Periodo 1 Periodo 1

OPPORTUNITIESEfficiences

Differenciated products

Permanent Grasslands

Externalities

Beef and Sheep Conference, June 09-16, 2016

Problems for Sustainable Development Defficient social services and communications Lack of acknowledgement of the importance of extensive livestock and its tangible and intangible productions Need for traceability of its products informing about the benefits (socio-cultural, economic and environmental-functional) of their consumption Little or no availability of recipes and easy to prepare products for consumption, especially of sheep Lack of habit of consumption of sheepmeat against other meats. Consumption focuses on group events and festivities Increasing interference of predators in the production system, becoming untenable that which is biologically more efficient

Beef and Sheep Conference, June 09-16, 2016

RESULTSProducts becoming less natural

Autochthonous breeds endangered

Acumulation of flammable biomass-fires

Desertification and erosion

Beef and Sheep Conference, June 09-16, 2016

LANDSCAPESPAST PRESENT FUTURE

Beef and Sheep Conference, June 09-16, 2016

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