Use of indicators to evaluate sustainability of animal production systems
Few indicators for sustainability are used in studying animal production systems. Sustainability of these systems should be evaluated in a dynamic and multidisciplinary manner, and those indicators used should allow for detecting the systems' most relevant properties, as well as the tendency of those systems to change. Indicators proposed by FAO provide information regarding all attributes of sustainability, although in a manner which is overly focused on technical and economic indicators at the expense of social and environmental factors. In order to use these indicators to evaluate sustainability, it is necessary to: (i) integrate and reduce the number of indicators, balancing them for all sustainability attributes; (ii) generate indicators which show system sustainability in relation to the economic, environmental and social context; and (iii) design indicators which show system evolution and the influence of this process on that system's sustainability.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Cría de ovejas, Cabras, Indicadores de sustentabilidad, Ganadería, |
| Online Access: | http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a70/00800024.pdf |
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