03178naa a2200229 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400530006010000200011324500920013326000090022530000140023452024220024865000130267065000250268365300270270865300260273570000190276170000140278070000230279477301310281721593992024-04-11       2023    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43063-3_42DOI1 aMAURICIO, R. M.  aCould biomass revolution be achieved with silvopastoral systems?h[electronic resource]  c2023  ap. 73-83.  aAccording to the theory of Ignacy Sachs, a Polish naturalized French ecosocial economist, several world contemporaneous problems could be solved by the process called by him “Biomass revolution”. Livestock products are part of the needs of the world’s growing population, and the adopted production system to meet this demand, should be sustainable. Therefore, we considered Sachs’ thinking extremely appropriate as biomass is the primary source of nutrients for cattle production in the world. However, biomass is much more than forage. Why? Because biomass is feed and food, organic fertilizer, carbon sink, energy, fuel, promoter of biodiversity and animal welfare, part of the landscape scenario, an important component to regulate the water cycle, and the main component of agroforestry systems and agroecology science. In addition, as the negative effects of global warming are putting at risk the world’s food security, the reduction of biomass could potentiate this risk in pasture monocultures and the increase of biomass could also be part of the solution to enrich the agropastoral ecosystem (e.g. grasses, bushes and trees in the silvopastoral system – SPS). Thinking in a broader perspective, biomass could also be considered an important part of the linkages of the global livestock sector to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN Agenda 2030: no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, gender equality, decent work and economic growth, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life on land and partnerships for the goals. These SDGs also constitute an important framework for the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, which has several actions to analyze and promote sustainable cattle production. SPS is defned as an agroforestry arrangement that aims to combine fodder plants (grass and leguminous forages) with shrubs and trees for animal nutrition and other uses (Murgueitio et al., Native trees and shrubs for the productive rehabilitation of tropical cattle ranching lands. For Ecol Manag 261:1654–1663, 2011). The present chapter will establish a link between the necessity of the world to generate the “biomass revolution”, and the potential of silvopastoral systems studies developed in Brazil and South America, as a possible mechanism to increase biomass, cattle/livestock production and environmental services in a sustainable way.  aBiomassa  aSegurança Alimentar  aCiclagem de nutrientes  aSistema silvipastoril1 aABDALLA, A. L.1 aPEREZ, S.1 aPACIULLO, D. S. C.  tIn: CHARÁ, J.; JOSE, S. (ed.). Silvopastoral systems of meso America and Northern South America. Switzerland: Springer, 2023.