SAC Research

The first PASTORAL workshop was held in July 2001, in the village of Soto del Real, central Spain, and brought together 35 experts from 12 different countries including Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The workshop was launched with a field trip on the first day to meet with farmers and agricultural extension workers in the Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains. This excursion set the context for the following three days of sessions during which the focus was on establishing what is known (and unknown) about the extent and agricultural characteristics of high nature value pastoral systems throughout Europe.

The meeting took a systems based approach to identifying the key gaps in information or research priorities and the driving forces of change. By doing so, the project recognises that it is essential to examine the entire farming system, particularly socio-economic factors, if effective policies are to be developed which maintain functioning and viable pastoral systems.

Country/Area Summary Overviews

• La Crau - France (Axel Wolff)
• French Pastoral Systems (written submission by Jean François Bataille & Edmond Tchakérian)
• French Pastoral Systems (Version of the above in French)
• Sheep cereal systems of Castilla-La Mancha (Rafael Caballero)
• The evolution of ruminant production systems in Greece (George Zervas)
• Available data on Romanian extensive livestock systems (Annette Mertens)
• Description of the Montado Pastoral System in Portugal (Peter Eden)

Workshop Presentations

• Extensive livestock production systems in Portugal (Luis Pinto de Andrade)
• Non-intensive dairy farming systems in the Mediterranean Basin: trends and limitations (George Zervas)
• Free-ranging livestock systems in Ireland (Liam Lysaght)
• Remarks on free-ranging livestock systems in Germany(Rainer Luick)
• Problems of free-ranging livestock systems in Romania (Condrea Draganescu)
• Elpen report of the 1st PASTORAL workshop (Jerry Laker)
• The Eurograzer Network (Peter Nowicki)

To obtain a copy of any of these papers, please contact Davy McCracken.

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