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This chapter constitutes an assay of a sustainable farming model for the Montemuro mountain (Portugal), a protected area of Natura 2000 network. The model integrates a strategy to reverse the trend of abandonment of this territory, promotes the conservation of natural values through the active management of traditional systems and needs to be economically viable, socially attractive and conducive to more environmental gains. The planning of the farming system was carried having for base the multiobjective programming (noninferior set estimation method complemented with compromise programming). Two objectives were considered to the mathematical formulation of the model: an economic objective – maximising the gross value added – and the second target regarded the environmental scope, minimising energy costs. As results, it is verified that the balance between the selected objectives was established by the selection of a particular set of vegetable activities and always by selecting bovine of trunk Friesian breed and sheep. Bovines of local breed (Arouquesa) are also an option to consider in most of the situations but in smaller numbers.
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Condition defined in “standard for beef cattle” in the extensity project – Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability in Agriculture Extensive. Its objective is to get the forage-livestock balance obtained on the farm but also to assure the autonomy of the production unit, fundamental condition to its sustainability (Domingos et al. 2005).
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Marta-Costa, A.A., Manso, F., Tibério, L., Fonseca, C. (2013). Ecological-Economic Modelling for Farming Systems of Montemuro Mountain (Portugal). In: Marta-Costa, A., Soares da Silva, E. (eds) Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5003-6_14
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