“…These variables are key in the strategic aspects to be considered in the mixed systems of cereal and dairy sheep with dry climate in the center of Spain showing great interactions in between crops and livestock production and, the knowledge of synergies and tradeoffs are essential for the improvement of the system [4,15,25,66]. Success of technological adoption are the result of knowing the reason for being and the objectives of the smallholders, and a deep knowledge of the system, the synergies and trade-offs among different activities [5,9,11,29,34,59,63]. The third factor, that we name ecoefficiency, was related to the productive organization, with the efficient and sustainable use of the whole system, where once addressed the immediate problems becomes a more complete strategic planning [8,14,15,52].…”