A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe

The European small ruminants (i.e. sheep and goats) farming sector (ESRS) provides economic, social and environmental benefits to society, but is also one of the most vulnerable livestock sectors in Europe. This sector has diverse livestock species, breeds, production systems and products, which mak...

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Autores: Belanche, A., Martín-Collado, Daniel, Rose, G., Yáñez Ruiz, David R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/253420
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/253420
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dairy
Goat production
Meat
Sheep production
Sustainability
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spelling A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in EuropeBelanche, A.Martín-Collado, DanielRose, G.Yáñez Ruiz, David R.DairyGoat productionMeatSheep productionSustainabilityThe European small ruminants (i.e. sheep and goats) farming sector (ESRS) provides economic, social and environmental benefits to society, but is also one of the most vulnerable livestock sectors in Europe. This sector has diverse livestock species, breeds, production systems and products, which makes difficult to have a clear vision of its challenges through using conventional analyses. A multi-stakeholder and multi-step approach, including 90 surveys, was used to identify and assess the main challenges for the sustainability of the ESRS to prioritize actions. These challenges and actions were identified by ESRS experts including farmers, cooperatives, breeding associations, advisers and researchers of six EU countries and Turkey. From the 30 identified challenges, the most relevant were economy-related challenges such as ‘uncertainty of meat and milk prices’, ‘volatility of commodity prices’, ‘low farm income’, ‘high subsidy dependency’ and ‘uncertainty in future changes in subsidies’ resulting in ‘a sector not attractive to young farmers’. Most of these challenges were beyond the farmer's control and perceived as difficult to address. Challenges were prioritized using an index, calculated by multiplying the relevance and the feasibility to address measures. The identified challenges had a similar priority index across the whole sector with small differences across livestock species (sheep vs goats), type of products (meat vs dairy) and intensification levels (intensive vs semi-intensive vs extensive). The priorities were different, however, between socio-geographical regions (Southern vs Central Europe). Some of the top prioritized challenges were linked to aspects related to the production systems (‘low promotion of local breeds’ and ‘slow adaptability of high producing breeds’) and market practices (‘unfair trade/lack of traceability’). The majority of the priority challenges, however, were associated with a deficient knowledge or training at farm level (‘poor business management training’, ‘lack of professionalization’, ‘slow adoption of innovations’), academia (‘researchers do not address real problems’) and society as a whole (‘low consumer education in local products’, ‘low social knowledge about farming’, ‘poor recognition of farming public services’). Thus, improved collaboration among the different stakeholders across the food chain with special implication of farmers, associations of producers, academia and governments is needed to facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building. These actions can contribute to make ESRS economically more sustainable and to adapt the production systems and policy to the current and future societal needs in a more region-contextualized framework.This study was supported by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and In-novation Action (RIA) through the project‘Innovation for sustainablesheep and Goat production in Europe (iSAGE)’under grant agreement 679302Elsevier BVEuropean CommissionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2021202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/253420reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/679302http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2020.100131Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2534202026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
title A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
spellingShingle A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
Belanche, A.
Dairy
Goat production
Meat
Sheep production
Sustainability
title_short A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
title_full A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
title_fullStr A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
title_full_unstemmed A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
title_sort A multi-stakeholder participatory study identifies the priorities for the sustainability of the small ruminants farming sector in Europe
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Belanche, A.
Martín-Collado, Daniel
Rose, G.
Yáñez Ruiz, David R.
author Belanche, A.
author_facet Belanche, A.
Martín-Collado, Daniel
Rose, G.
Yáñez Ruiz, David R.
author_role author
author2 Martín-Collado, Daniel
Rose, G.
Yáñez Ruiz, David R.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv European Commission
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Dairy
Goat production
Meat
Sheep production
Sustainability
topic Dairy
Goat production
Meat
Sheep production
Sustainability
description The European small ruminants (i.e. sheep and goats) farming sector (ESRS) provides economic, social and environmental benefits to society, but is also one of the most vulnerable livestock sectors in Europe. This sector has diverse livestock species, breeds, production systems and products, which makes difficult to have a clear vision of its challenges through using conventional analyses. A multi-stakeholder and multi-step approach, including 90 surveys, was used to identify and assess the main challenges for the sustainability of the ESRS to prioritize actions. These challenges and actions were identified by ESRS experts including farmers, cooperatives, breeding associations, advisers and researchers of six EU countries and Turkey. From the 30 identified challenges, the most relevant were economy-related challenges such as ‘uncertainty of meat and milk prices’, ‘volatility of commodity prices’, ‘low farm income’, ‘high subsidy dependency’ and ‘uncertainty in future changes in subsidies’ resulting in ‘a sector not attractive to young farmers’. Most of these challenges were beyond the farmer's control and perceived as difficult to address. Challenges were prioritized using an index, calculated by multiplying the relevance and the feasibility to address measures. The identified challenges had a similar priority index across the whole sector with small differences across livestock species (sheep vs goats), type of products (meat vs dairy) and intensification levels (intensive vs semi-intensive vs extensive). The priorities were different, however, between socio-geographical regions (Southern vs Central Europe). Some of the top prioritized challenges were linked to aspects related to the production systems (‘low promotion of local breeds’ and ‘slow adaptability of high producing breeds’) and market practices (‘unfair trade/lack of traceability’). The majority of the priority challenges, however, were associated with a deficient knowledge or training at farm level (‘poor business management training’, ‘lack of professionalization’, ‘slow adoption of innovations’), academia (‘researchers do not address real problems’) and society as a whole (‘low consumer education in local products’, ‘low social knowledge about farming’, ‘poor recognition of farming public services’). Thus, improved collaboration among the different stakeholders across the food chain with special implication of farmers, associations of producers, academia and governments is needed to facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building. These actions can contribute to make ESRS economically more sustainable and to adapt the production systems and policy to the current and future societal needs in a more region-contextualized framework.
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