LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics

被引：112

作者：

Rao, I. ^{[1
]}

Peters, M. ^{[1
]}

Castro, A. ^{[1
]}

Schultze-Kraft, R. ^{[1
]}

White, D. ^{[2
]}

Fisher, M. ^{[1
]}

Miles, J. ^{[1
]}

Lascano, C. ^{[1
]}

Bluemmel, M. ^{[3
]}

Bungenstab, D. ^{[4
]}

Tapasco, J. ^{[1
]}

Hyman, G. ^{[1
]}

Bolliger, A. ^{[1
]}

Paul, B. ^{[1
]}

Van der Hoek, R. ^{[1
]}

Maass, B. ^{[1
]}

Tiemann, T. ^{[1
]}

Cuchillo, M. ^{[1
]}

Douxchamps, S. ^{[3
]}

Villanueva, C. ^{[5
]}

Rincon, A. ^{[6
]}

Ayarza, M. ^{[6
]}

Rosenstock, T. ^{[7
]}

Subbarao, G. ^{[8
]}

Arango, J. ^{[1
]}

Cardoso, J. ^{[1
]}

Worthington, M. ^{[1
]}

Chirinda, N. ^{[1
]}

Notenbaert, A. ^{[1
]}

Jenet, A. ^{[5
]}

Schmidt, A. ^{[9
]}

Vivas, N. ^{[10
]}

Lefroy, R. ^{[1
]}

Fahrney, K. ^{[1
]}

Guimaraes, E. ^{[1
]}

Tohme, J. ^{[1
]}

Cook, S. ^{[1
]}

Herrero, M. ^{[11
]}

Chacon, M. ^{[5
,12
]}

Searchinger, T. ^{[13
]}

Rudel, T. ^{[14
]}

机构：

[1] CIAT, Cali, Colombia

[2] Res Dev & Conservat, Burlington, VT USA

[3] ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya

[4] Empresa Brasileira Pesquisa Agr, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

[5] CATIE, Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica

[6] Corp Colombiana Invest Agr Corpoica, Bogota, Colombia

[7] World Agroforestry Ctr ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya

[8] JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

[9] CRS, Lima, Peru

[10] Univ Cauca, Popayan, Colombia

[11] CSIRO, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

[12] Conservat Int, Arlington, VA USA

[13] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[14] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ USA

来源：

TROPICAL GRASSLANDS-FORRAJES TROPICALES | 2015年 / 3卷 / 02期

关键词：

Eco-efficiency; environmental benefits; livestock and environment; mixed farming; pastures; smallholders; GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT; BIOLOGICAL NITRIFICATION INHIBITION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; LAND-USE; BRACHIARIA PASTURES; SOIL MACROFAUNA; BEEF-PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; IMPACTS;

D O I：

10.17138/TGFT(3)59-82

中图分类号：

S8 [畜牧、动物医学、狩猎、蚕、蜂];

学科分类号：

0905 ;

摘要：

As global demand for livestock products (such as meat, milk and eggs) is expected to double by 2050, necessary increases 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 organization 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.

引用

页码：59 / 82

页数：24

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