Livestock Subsidies and Rangeland Degradation in Central Crete

Marginal and unstable environmental conditions force stockbreeders in drylands to develop adaptive strategies to ensure stability of production. In intensive market-oriented pastoral systems, the partial substitution of rangeland forage production by external feed increases the influence of commodit...

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Main Authors: Hugues Lorent, Ruth Sonnenschein, Georgios M. Tsiourlis, Patrick Hostert, Eric Lambin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2009-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art41/