Francisco de Asis Ruiz Morales

• Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training

Este artículo tiene como objetivo revisar y sintetizar los resultados de las actividades que diferentes equipos de trabajo están realizando en relación a la ganadería y los servicios ecosistémicos en distintas regiones de España. Las cuestiones estarán centradas en puntos específicos como, por ejemplo, el papel de la ganadería ecológica/extensiva e...

The multifunctionality of agricultural and livestock systems is a pivotal attribute that should be considered when formulating rural policies, as it serves as a significant source of income for those managing these systems in their respective areas. The objective of this work was to quantify the farm-level multifunctionality of extensive livestock...

Simple Summary The recent health crisis has created a new scenario where rural tourism stands out as a beneficiary of the post-COVID era. The results of this research, based on the conducted surveys, show that agrotourism is an attractive and interesting activity for tourists, offering a diversified experience with livestock-related and pastoral ac...

Extensive livestock farming in general is more sustainable than intensive methods. However, its profitability is usually low, which can affect the motivation of young people to take up livestock rearing, and often leads them to seek employment elsewhere. The aim of this paper is to study the factors affecting the Farm profit of extensive ruminant f...

Semi-hard pressed goat’s cheese, a traditional matured cheese in Andalusia, has a residual lactose content that may affect people with intolerance to that carbohydrate. Nowadays, lactose-free dairy products are characterized by presenting a scant sensory quality, far removed from their traditional profile for their pronounced sweet and bitter taste...

Extensive livestock systems have decreased in the last decades. In general, these systems are characterized by low profitability, but they have a key role on environment conservation, maintenance of rural population, and health of meat and milk consumers. The present study was carried out in 2017 with 29 livestock farmers in the cold steppe area, R...

In the Mediterranean Basin, sheep meat production systems are based on grazing, and help to conserve biodiversity, mitigate the greenhouse gases emissions and maintain the population in rural areas. However, the lack of differentiation of pastoral systems, as opposed to the intensive model, puts its continuity at risk. In this sense, organic farmin...

Aim of study: To characterize and analyse the extensive livestock farming systems in environmental protected area and propose strategies for their sustainable improvement. Area of study: Sierra Nevada Protected Area (Spain) Material and methods: Data were collected from a sample of 85 farmers and 48 experts. The information from farmers was express...

Simple Summary A local breed’s particularities may provide eggs with sensory properties which may overcome laying lineage, regardless of their production system characteristics. Hence, methods clarifying what the appreciation of a certain product is like can outline the actions required to improve the market value of that product. Affine and non-af...

The aim of this review is to show the evolution of the dairy goat sector in Europe from all perspectives. Starting from the current situation, the challenges and future potential of this livestock system are presented, as well as strategies to overcome the difficulties faced. Europe holds 1.9% of the world goat population and produces 15.1% of goat...

El conjunto del sector ovino y caprino en España supone el 4% de la Producción Final Agraria, y el 10,7% de la Producción Final Ganadera. El sector caprino cuenta con 12 millones de cabezas en la Unión Europea (UE), siendo España, con el 25% del censo europeo (2,7 millones de cabezas), el segundo país en importancia censal detrás de Grecia (4,3 mil...

Pasture-based livestock systems in farms with medium or low size are especially important in less favored areas and are valuable for society. For these systems to survive, it is necessary to obtain an acceptable level of productivity and ensure commercialization of the products. This study was carried out in the district of Rio Ibáñez, General Carr...

El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en evaluar los impactos socioeconómicos y ambientales asociados a diferentes tipologías de manejo agrario en el área de influencia socioeconómica (AIS) del Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada (PNSN), con el fín último de identificar estrategias de manejo y gestión sostenible tanto para el sector productivo, como p...

In Europe and in the Mediterranean basin, goats and especially dairy goats have a peculiar importance and their production systems have been deeply changed during the last 50 years. Although the goats are generally seen as environmental friendly, the goat sector is more and more questioned by the general environmental challenges faced by agricultur...

Well-performing grazing systems play an important role in improving and maintaining environmental and social conditions of mountain areas. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the economic and social viability of pastoral goat farming systems and their feeding management schemes in order to improve their sustainability. Sixt...

More than 1200 million sheep are raised in the world, 18% of them are dairy sheep that account for a milk yield of 10.14 million T. The 44% of the total milk production coming from the Mediterranean Basin. Dairy sheep system shows a wide variation in farming management techniques and milk productivity. Feeding techniques, forage systems and livesto...

Andalucía es la principal región apícola española. Según las estadísticas del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Medio Ambiente (MAGRAMA, 2016) para el año 2014, existían un total de 562.503 colmenas (22% del total nacional) en las que se produjeron 6.888 toneladas de miel (21,4% del total). En este sector ganadero, al igual que ocurre en otros, la...

Goats are essential in mountainous areas where farms are under traditional grazing management. To conserve these rangeland systems it is important to gain knowledge of the feeding and reproductive management of the animals. 16 goat-grazing farms were monitored monthly. Using the indicator net energy percentage provided by grazing, the farms were cl...

Resumen La sociedad europea demanda cada vez más que la pro-ducción de alimentos sea respetuosa con el medio am-biente, cuidando además su calidad nutritiva. Muchos de los sistemas pastorales de pequeños rumiantes presen-tes en España cumplen con la mayoría de los criterios de sostenibilidad. Los sistemas de la raza Segureña se basan en un modelo p...

Several wildfire prevention programs in Spain are using grazing livestock to maintain fuelbreaks with low levels of biomass. Even though shepherds are remunerated for these services, many of their farms are hardly viable in the current socio-economic context. By analyzing 54 small ruminant farms participating in the Grazed Fuelbreak Network in Anda...

Perú tiene un importante sector caprino con rebaños de aptitud cárnica o mixta. Sin embargo, en los valles de la costa central hay una mayor tendencia a la orientación lechera, alimentando a los animales en base arastrojos agrícolas. El objetivo de este estudio fue caracterizar las explotaciones de esta zona, para lo cual se entrevistaron 60 ganade...

Peru has an important goat sector, based mainly on mixed or meat purpose herds. Nevertheless, in Peruvian central coast valleys, goats are more oriented to milk purpose, being the animal feeding based on graze crop stubbles. The objective of this study was to characterize farms of this area. Sixty (60) farmers were interviewed and 39 variables were...

Dans le cadre du travail d'analyse et d'évaluation technico-économique des systèmes de production ovine et caprine rapporté dans Option Méditerranéenne n° 91 en 2009, complété dans la domaine de l'exploitation des parcours et des pâtures cultivée dans Option Méditerranéenne n° 100 en 2011, cette étude propose aussi une gamme plus large d'indicateur...

Desde el Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria (IFAPA) a través de la Planta de Lácteos situada en el centro de Hinojosa del Duque, como desde el Área de Economía y Sociologías Agrarias, junto a otros organismos de investigación y experimentación andaluz, como es el Área de Producción Animal de la Universidad de Sevilla, se viene t...

a b s t r a c t In the municipality of Tecpatan, Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico, it is highly feasible to convert tradi-tional agrosilvopastoral systems of dairy production to the organic production model. The objective of this study was to characterize silvopastoral systems and evaluate the feasibility of converting traditional agrosilvopastoral...

In the municipality of Tecpatan, Chiapas, in Southeastern Mexico, traditional agrosilvopastoral systems of dairy production have great potential for conversion to the organic production model. The objective of this study was to characterize silvopastoral systems and evaluate the potential of converting traditional agrosilvopastoral systems to the o...

Organic farming conserves natural resources, promotes biodiversity, guarantees animal welfare and obtains healthy products from raw materials through natural processes. In order to evaluate possibilities of increasing organic animal production, this study proposes a farm-scale multicriteria method for assessing the conversion of dairy goat systems...

La provincia de Málaga se caracteriza por la elaboración de quesos con leche de cabra de la raza “Malagueña”. Estos quesos, de alta calidad, presentan una gran variedad de especialidades, desde algunos de gran tradición, reconocidos por la Unión Europea como el Queso de Málaga o Montes de Málaga y el Queso de Ronda o de la Serranía de Ronda, hasta...

The aim of this work is to present the segmentation of the Andalusian handmade goat cheesemarket in metropolitan areas, in order to establish training and promotion strategies to be addressed to this sector and to specific niches of consumers. The analysis was performed based on a survey made to a sample of 440 consumers from Sevilla (Spain), strat...

In recent decades there has been a worldwide increase in the intensification process of the livestock sector. This study looks into the changes that have taken place in goat farms in less favoured areas of Spain by comparing the situation of systems in the Northern Sierra of Seville (SNS), a traditional goat farming area in Spain, in the years 2002...

A method based on technical, economic and ecological indicators for analysing and evaluating the systems of sheep and goat production have been published in Options Méditerranénnes n° 91 (2009). The aim of this study is to meet the developing need of livestock farmers and extension agents more completely. It provides several sets of new indicators...

Multiple factors affect the continuity of goat farms: market conditions, availability of land, application of new technologies, etc. Among these factors, those related to labour play an important role. The aim of this study is to characterize all aspects related to labour in goat farms in Andalusia (Spain) and propose some strategies for improvemen...

Según el Reglamento de la UE (CE) n° 889/2008 de la Comisión de 5 de septiembre de 2008, por el que se establecen disposiciones de aplicación del Reglamento (CE) n° 834/2007 del Consejo, una explotación ecológica debe reunir los siguientes requisitos: (i) Estar dentro de un ecosistema agrario, (ii) Tener el máximo respeto hacia el bienestar y la pr...

This article is a presentation of the local Mediterranean cheese sector and of the several types of projects and initiatives to promote the Mediterranean local cheeses: promotional campaigns, workshops, networks and meetings, regional events (cheeses shows, processing demonstrations, thematic routes, cheese contests, …). The small-scale and farm-ma...

This study was aimed to characterise and typify the red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) game farms in Spain using variables related to structure and marketing. A structured survey was carried out on 63 farms in 2008. A multiple correspondence analysis performed to characterise the farms yielded two dimensions. First dimension explained 45.1% of t...

a b s t r a c t This article presents the evolution, actual situation and prospects for goat production sys-tems in Spain, taking into account the present day changes of socio-economic, technological and agricultural policies of the European Union (EU). Spain is ranked second in goat pop-ulation and third in goat milk yield within the EU, neverthel...

La mayoría de las cooperativas caprinas andaluzas comienzan su andadura en los años ochenta del pasado siglo, reuniendo en el año 2007 a más de 1.650 ganaderos, con más de 300.000 animales. estas cooperativas comercializan alrededor de 70 millones de litros de leche, un 5% en forma de queso u otros productos lácteos. en este trabajo se muestra un...

Currently, sustainability is an objective for any economic activity or development process. Many studies with theoretical reflections relating to the concept of sustainability exist, but few methodological contributions adequately quantify and evaluate the level of sustainability of agraricultural systems, specifically with respect to small ruminan...

In order to maintain small ruminant grazing systems it is necessary to know precisely how they work and what actions can be taken to improve them. The objective of this paper was to characterize, classify, analyse and propose improvements for the dairy goat grazing systems in three countries from the western Mediterranean area: Spain, France and It...

Se evalúa, de manera exploratoria, el grado de acercamiento de los sistemas agrosilvopastori-les (SAS) tradicionales con ganado bovino de tres microrregiones del Corredor Biológico, en Chiapas, al modelo de producción orgánica. Mediante consulta a expertos y con base en la normativa orgánica, se diseñó una propuesta de evaluación con 35 variables p...

Seventy full lactations of Payoya dairy goats were used to study the effect of two different kid-rearing systems, natural or artificial, on milk yield, composition, hygiene-sanitary quality, kid growth and rearing cost. Two animal groups were established, one with goats under natural rearing (NS) and the other under artificial rearing (AR). In the...

Because of their healthy relation to the natural environment there is a growing interest in promoting sustainable animal production systems. Organic systems stand out, as they pay special attention to preserving natural resources, promoting biodiversity, guaranteeing animal well-being, and obtaining healthy products from raw materials and natural p...

This paper is the continuation of a previous study presented by the authors in the FAO-CIEHAM (Food and Agriculture Organization- International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies) seminar in Seville in 2005, in which, a preliminary analysis was made of the use of FAO-CIHEAM indicators to evaluatesustainability of small ruminant far...

This paper presents the work undertaken since 1994 by a working group of experts from sub-network FAO-CIHEAM on systems of sheep and goat production, on evaluation’s methodology of such systems. The objective of this study was to set up a methodology for analysing and comparing the various systems of sheep and goat production, an so as to meet farm...

Résumé. Le secteur caprin laitier andalou produit 50% du lait de l'Espagne et possède des opportunités de développement très claires utilisant des races autochtones et des grandes surfaces de pâturages disponibles. La production de fromages de chèvre en Andalousie peut être considérée comme un modèle de développement rural durable. Différents organ...

Organic goat production is poorly developed in Spain. Conventional dairy goat production systems located in Andalusian mountainous areas greatly depend on pasturing which implies that its transformation to organic model is not difficult. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the viability of organic dairy goat farms –as compared to conventiona...

Andalucía cuenta con un patrimonio quesero rico y diverso. Esta región se caracteriza por su variedad de climas, suelos, orografía, flora y fauna, que junto al 'saber hacer' ancestral de los productores, hombres y mujeres del campo han hecho posible la elaboración de productos lácteos tradicionales que ya forman parte de la cultura alimentaria y ga...

The origin, production area, ducks, technology and gastronomy of the Bola de Ocosingo Cheese and Double Cream Cheese, made with cow's milk, in Chiapas, Mexico are described. Se describe el origen, área de producción, patos, tecnologia y gastronomía de los Quesos Bola de Ocosingo y Queso Doble Crema, hechos con leche de vaca, en Chiapas, México.

Andalusia is the second goat milk-producing region in Europe and therefore pastoral goat systems are important. In order to maintain these types of systems it is necessary to know precisely how they work and what actions can be taken to improve them. In this study the authors have set out the following objectives: (i) to characterize and analyze th...

El carácter artesanal de las producciones alimentarias está estrechamente relacionado con el concepto de productos típicos, tradicionales (Gómez Muñoz et al., 2006). Se podría decir que el primero se incluye en el segundo al que añade en sus exigencias la predominancia del factor mano de obra en el proceso de elaboración, y consecuentemente el tama...

Las acciones de valorización y de promoción de los quesos artesanos del Mediterráneo son herramientas de gran utilidad para recuperar un patrimonio quesero tradicional, en parte desconocido para el gran público. Los métodos y actividades descritas en este libro permiten conocer la realidad de cinco regiones mediterráneas, cuyos sistemas productivo...

SUMMARY - "Adaptation of FAO indicators to semi-intensive goat systems: Reflections on an experience in Andalusia". This communication is a synthesis of the work conducted over the past years by the Animal Production Area of Seville University, regarding the adaptation of the FAO/CIHEAM technical and economic indicators to semi-extensive small rumi...

RESUME - Les données de 38 exploitations caprines laitières de 3 régions d'Andalousie (Espagne) sont présentées. Après qu'une campagne complète soit analysée rétrospectivement en suivant la méthodologie de Toussaint (2002), les données sont analysées statistiquement. Les exploitations sont groupées selon la classification proposée par Castel et al....

Résumé. Depuis plus de 20 ans, l'Institut de l'Elevage (France) réalise l'analyse des résultats technico-économiques d'élevages caprins en suivi. En Andalousie également, un groupe de chercheurs du Secteur Production Animale de l'Université de Séville a entamé en 2002 l'analyse technico-économique en utilisant la liste des indicateurs proposée par...