Elena Angón

TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate analysis was conducted on 30 farms in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha, where 164 technical, economic and social variables were analyzed.

TL;DR: Improving viability requires a systemic approach where the key tool is grazing, allowing the dry land mixed system of Castilla La Mancha to be consolidated as a model that enhances the positive impact of livestock on the environment in the Mediterranean basin.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Canonical correlation, a multivariate statistical technique used for analyzing the relationship among different set of indicators, namely, management, feeding, animal health, land use, milking equipment, and reproduction-genetic.

TL;DR: The mixed crop-livestock system in tropic region requires an increase in herd size according to farm’s own productive structure, which is strongly influenced by the ecological zone, and systems would improve with the active participation of smallholders to identify and achieve best practices, higher technological adoption level and with an effective support from public and private Institutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prototype analysis of the economic sustainability of ecological dairy sheep systems of Castilla-La Mancha, Central Spain evaluated through the estimation of costs efficiencies was presented, which indicated that continued existence of economically unsustainably farms is explained by the available subsidies, lack of amortization of fixed assets leading to progressive decapitalization, and subsistence incomes by family groups.