Symposium on the Challenge to Sheep and Goats Milk Sectors Sardinia Italy 2007

<body> The first symposium organized by IDF on sheep and goats milk and their products was held in Athens in 1985. After a very long delay the second symposium was held in Hersonissos, Crete (Greece) in 1995. The third symposium was held in Nicosia (Cyprus) in 2000 and the fourth in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2004. Objectives The general objective of the symposium is to give a renewed vision of knowledge on husbandry and milk production, technology, chemistry, physics, microbiology, nutrition etc, without losing sight of the significance of markets and appropriate policies, as they have evolved since 2004, to scientists and other professionals involved in the sheep and goats dairy sectors (milk producers, dairy industry, trade associations, academia, research institutes, government). The Symposium, in our hope, could be an occasion to meet a large number of people working on sheep and goat milk all around in the world. </body>