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Tropical forage-based systems for climate-smart livestock production in Latin America

Tropical forage grasses and legumes as key components of sustainable crop-livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have major implications for improving food security, alleviating poverty, restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change. Climate-smart tropical forage crops can imp...

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Main Authors: Rao, Idupulapati M., Peters, Michael, Hoek, Rein van der, Castro, A., Subbaraoa, Guntur V., Cadisch, Georg, Rincón, A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56951
Summary:Tropical forage grasses and legumes as key components of sustainable crop-livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have major implications for improving food security, alleviating poverty, restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change. Climate-smart tropical forage crops can improve the livestock productivity of smallholder farming systems and break the cycle of poverty and resource degradation. Sustainable intensification of forage-based systems contributes to better human nutrition, increases farm incomes, raises soil carbon accumulation and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

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