The risk of unintended deforestation from scaling sustainable livestock production systems
| Autor: | Ovidio Rivera, Carolina González, Marcos Lana, Danny Sandoval, Martha Del Río, Marcela Quintero, Luca Eufemia, Steven Sotelo, Alexander Buritica, Eliza Villarino, Augusto Castro-Nuñez, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Federico José Holmann, Lisset Perez, Katharina Löhr, Miguel Romero, Sandra Durango |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sustainable development
Global and Planetary Change Ecology environmental safeguards business.industry Natural resource economics General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution silvopastoral systems QH1-199.5 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) deforestation‐free agriculture Ecosystem services Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use Deforestation deforestation leakage scaling‐out sustainable land use systems Faculty of Science Production (economics) Livestock Business QH540-549.5 Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Castro-Nunez, A, Buritica, A, González, C, Villarino, M E J, Holmann, F, Pérez Marulanda, L, Del Río, M, Sandoval, D, Eufemia, L, Löhr, K, Durango, S, Romero, M, Lana, M, Sotelo, S, Rivera, O, Loboguerrero, A M & Quintero, M 2021, ' The risk of unintended deforestation from scaling sustainable livestock production systems ', Conservation Science and Practice, vol. 3, no. 9, e495 . https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.495 Conservation Science and Practice, Vol 3, Iss 9, Pp n/a-n/a (2021) |
| Popis: | Silvopastoral systems (SPS)—production systems integrating trees, forages, and livestock within the same land area—are recognized as critical for reducing tropical deforestation and improving livelihoods, ecosystem services, and carbon sinks. Yet, research on how scaling SPS influences forest cover changes at large geographical scales is scant. Our study delves deeper into the interlinkages between scaling SPS and deforestation. In two surveys conducted among 144 Colombian Amazon livestock producers with traditional or SPS farms, we assessed changes in herd composition between 2016 and 2020. Results showed a change in herd composition, with fewer males and more cows/heifers, suggesting a shift toward specializing in milk production, which, with the appropriate environmental incentives and safeguards, would unlikely broaden deforestation. However, interlinkages between the dairy and beef value chains suggest that extra male cattle from SPS intensification would be moved for fattening as a source of beef to new pastures at the forest border. If SPS scaling interventions in the Colombian Amazon are to be truly deforestation‐free, they need to be designed based on a clear understanding of the interlinkages between food and land systems. Therefore, policies advancing the livestock and land‐use agenda must create mechanisms that support deforestation‐free livestock intensification, based on biophysical and socioeconomic evaluations. While our research results support previous findings, indicating that silvopastoral systems offer ecological and economic benefits at farm level, they also urge that environmental safeguards be put in place to prevent possible deforestation leakage due to the aggregated effects of farm‐level changes in herd composition from broader adoption of sustainable livestock production systems. |
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