Challenging strategies to promote the sheep and goat sector in the current global context : proceedings of the 13th international seminar of the subnetwork on nutrition of the FAO-CIHEAM interregional coorperative research and development network on sheep and goats, Leon (Spain), 14-16 October 2009
This publication is a result of the 13<sup>th</sup> Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Sub-Network on Sheep and Goat
Nutrition, held in León (Spain) from 14<sup>th</sup> to 16<sup>th</sup> October 2009, and contains 52 invited and selected
papers presented at the meeting. Under the title "Challenging strategies to promote the sheep and goat
sector in the current global context", the Seminar was jointly organized by the University of León (Spain),
the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean
Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO). The Seminar covered a wide range of topics distributed in four sessions and
a round table: (i) Strategies for sustainable production and landscape management. Manipulation of
animal behaviour and interloping of other species; (ii) Rumen microbial ecology and metabolism in
sheep and goats. Microbiome, digestion, manipulation and welfare; (iii) Feeding strategies to improve
small ruminant production in the current global context. Global warming impact on sheep and goat
production; (iv) Nutrition-parasite interactions in sheep and goats; and (v) Nutritional strategies to
improve milk and meat quality in sheep and goats.
