La producción de calidad y el desarrollo sostenible: el caso del queso de oveja merina de Grazalema

Abstract

This paper focus on the innovations made by local actors in the production and marketing of Merina de Grazalema Sheep Cheese, studying how these changes may improve or not the sustainability of Sierra de Grazalema as an agro-ecosystem. These innovations answer to production system and organization patterns within the supply chain, they seek to confront a new agro-food context. This new context has been unfolded by changes in three main elements of the equation: (1) new EU policies, (2) Globalization ofthe markets, and new consumption patterns. Merina de Gra lema. We found that the low scale and the high artisan level of production have been the key to the construction of positive answer to this new context, and that the materialization of these answers is highly diversified.