Silvopastoral systems and agroforestry practices represent integrated land‐use approaches that combine trees with pasture and crops to achieve more resilient and sustainable agricultural production.

New research has identified what may be the future of sustainable livestock production: silvopastoral systems which include shrubs and trees with edible leaves or fruits as well as herbage. Consumers ...

Agriculture, particularly pasture, is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from tropical regions. Silvopastoral systems may increase carbon pools in pastures while maintaining ...

To date, about 32,000 hectares have been converted to the silvopastoral system, increasing incomes by up to $523 per hectare, per year, and boosting milk productivity by an average of 36.2% The ...

A silvopastoral experiment running at the Brian Pastures Research Facility near Gayndah, has found cattle grazing with trees only put on 10 grams a day less than those in open pastures.

Silvopastoral farming, where trees and forage plants are planted in livestock pasture, may support biodiversity and offer solutions to high deforestation rates, according to a new University of ...

At 2019’s global climate summit in Madrid, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom committed US$366 million to Colombia to reduce deforestation. This included the transformation of 147,000 hectares of ...

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Governance of climate change at the territorial level is critical if decision makers are to gain awareness of the realities that communities affected by the impacts of climate change face, and to ...

Over a two-year period, Chavarria and colleagues took weekly samples from streams surrounded by mature forest, young secondary forest, silvo- and traditional pasture at STRI’s Agua Salud site to ...

Integrating trees, grasses and other vegetation with grazing domesticated animals could be a solution to many of the issues associated with raising livestock. Some of the proposed solutions include ...