Adaptability of small ruminant farmers facing global change. A north-south Mediterranean analysis (France/Egypt)

Jacques Lasseur, Veronique Alary, Adel Adel M. Aboul-Naga, Mona Abd El-Zaher Osman, Ibrahim Daoud, Pascal Bonner. (30/8/2013). Adaptability of small ruminant farmers facing global change. A north-south Mediterranean analysis (France/Egypt), in "Book of Abstracts of the 64th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science ". Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Abstract

The Mediterranean basin has seen a doubling of its population during the last 40 years to reach 450 million inhabitants, with one third of its population concentrated in the coastal zone, characterized by a high degree of urbanization. Conversely, during the last century, the hinterland of the Mediterranean coast faced a rural exodus accompanied by a decreasing land pressure that affected landscape dynamics in the North Mediterranean and caused a radical change of collective management in the South Mediterranean, disrupting long-term adaptation practices to climate variability.