Booklet prepared by the National Learning Service SENA, through the SENNOVA Program, the AGROPEC-SIAS Research Seedbed. It seeks to become a useful tool for those sheep-goat producers interested in incorporating in their practices, new technologies of sustainable livestock production that contribute to the reconversion of the environment, allowing them to face the shortage of forage foods during adverse agroclimatic conditions, such as that appear in the Caribbean region every year due to the presence of long summer periods.