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Contribution of organic farming to increase sustainability of Mediterranean small ruminants livestock systems

2003-03-01

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The aim of the paper is to evaluate the feasibility and constraints of organic farming to increase the sustainability of Mediterranean small ruminant livestock systems. The paper analyzes the factors affecting sustainability of small ruminant livestock systems in the Mediterranean basin, such as seasonal forage availability or suboptimal pasture utilisation due to overgrazing but also the factor of undergrazing. T...

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Literature Corpus work: 43544f7b-1107-59d4-91f0-433d929799a1
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-6226(02)00316-0

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