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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Gado de Corte.
Data corrente: | 20/02/2018
Data da última atualização: | 20/02/2018
Autoria: | RAO, I.; PETERS, M.; CASTRO, A.; SCHULTZE-KRAFT, R.; WHITE, D.; FISHER, M.; MILE, J.; LASCANO, C.; BLÜMMEL, M.; BUNGENSTAB, D. J.; TAPASCO, J.; HYMAN, G.; BOLLIGER, A.; PAUL, B.; VAN DER HOEK, R.; MAASS, B.; TIEMANN, T.; CUCHILLO, M.; DOUXCHAMPS, S.; VILLANUEVA, C; RINCÓN, A.; AYARZA, M; ROSENSTOCK, T.; SUBBARAO, G.; ARANGO, J.; CARDOSO, J.; WORTHINGTON, M.; CHIRINDA, N.; NOTENBAERT, A.; JENET, A.; SCHMIDT, A.; VIVAS, N.; LEFROY, R.; FAHRNEY, K.; GUIMARÃES, E.; TOHME, J.; COOK, S.; HERRERO, M.; CHACÓN, M.; SEARCHINGER, T.; RUDEL, T.
Afiliação: | Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Research4development & conservation; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; International Livestock Research Institute - ILRI; DAVI JOSE BUNGENSTAB, CNPGC; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; International Livestock Research Institute - ILRI; Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza - CATIE; Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria - Corpoica; Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria - Corpoica; World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF; Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences - JIRCAS; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza - CATIE; Catholic Relief Services - CRS; Universidad del Cauca; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO; Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza - CATIE; Princeton University; Rutgers University.
Título: | LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics.
Ano de publicação: | 2015
Fonte/Imprenta: | Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales, v. 3, p. 59-82, 2015
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | As global demand for livestock products (such as meat, milk and eggs) is expected to double by 2050, necessary in-creases to future production must be reconciled with negative environmental impacts that livestock cause. This paper describes the LivestockPlus concept and demonstrates how the sowing of improved forages can lead to the sustainable intensification of mixed crop-forage-livestock-tree systems in the tropics by producing multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. Sustainable intensification not only improves the productivity of tropical forage-based systems but also reduces the ecological footprint of livestock production and generates a diversity of ecosystem services (ES) such as improved soil quality and reduced erosion, sedimentation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Integrating improved grass and legume forages into mixed production systems (crop-livestock, tree-livestock, crop-tree-livestock) can restore degraded lands and enhance system resilience to drought and waterlogging associated with climate change. When properly managed tropical forages accumulate large amounts of carbon in soil, fix atmospheric nitrogen (legumes), inhibit nitrification in soil and reduce nitrous oxide emissions (grasses), and reduce GHG emissions per unit livestock product. The LivestockPlus concept is defined as the sustainable intensification of forage-based systems, which is based on 3 interrelated intensification processes: genetic intensification - the development and use of superior grass and legume cultivars for increased livestock productivity; ecological intensification - the development and application of improved farm and natural resource management practices; and socio-economic intensification - the improvement of local and national institutions and policies, which enable refinements of technologies and support their enduring use. Increases in livestock productivity will require coordinated efforts to develop supportive government, non-government organiza-tion and private sector policies that foster investments and fair market compensation for both the products and ES provided. Effective research-for-development efforts that promote agricultural and environmental benefits of forage-based systems can contribute towards implemention of LivestockPlus across a variety of geographic, political and socio-economic contexts.
Palavras-Chave: | Agricultura mista; Livestock and environment; Mixed farming; Pequeno proprietário; Smallholders.
Thesagro: | Meio ambiente; Pastagem; Pecuária.
Thesaurus Nal: | Eco-efficiency; Ecosystem services; Pastures.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Gado de Corte (CNPGC)
Exemplares: | CNPGC - (17046-1) - UPC - AP - DD -  -  -  - DIS