Traditional itinerary sheep farming in Trás-os-Montes: a useful tool for land management: a useful tool for  land management

Barbosa, José Carlos; Portela, José

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Barbosa, José Carlos

Portela, José

Abstract(s)

Trás-os-Montes, Northeastern Portugal, is one of the most disfavoured areas in the country and in the EU. It is a mountainous region where sheep farming has had a great socioeconomic value throughout time, particularly due to the fact that alternative economic activities are very scarce at both the local and regional level. Traditional sheep farming is based on long- established knowledge and pratices. Its main feature is itinerary grazing over the local territory. Flocks range around all over the unfenced and “free” plots of different landowners, according to old uses of land management. So, sheep use natural resources that otherwise would be useless

Keywords

Sheep farming system Natural resources utilization

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/3166

Citation

Barbosa, José Carlos; Portela, José (2005). Traditional itinerary sheep farming in Trás-os-Montes: a useful tool for land management. In Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilisation in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas.EAAP. ISSN 0071-2477. 115, p. 163-167