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Sustainable intensification of livestock as a means to achieve forest conservation and food production in the Brazilian Southern Atlantic forest

Andréa Castelo Branco Brasileiro-Assing,M. Wironen,Alison B. Adams,J. Farley,Paulo Antonio De Almeida Sinisgalli,A. Schmitt-Filho

Published 2021 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot. Efforts to restore the forest must address the tradeoffs facing family farmers. In this paper, we combine literature review and empirical analysis to evaluate the ways in which an agroecological practice – Management Intensive Grazing (MIG) – can contribute to sustainable intensification in southern Brazil. Our results show that farmers adopting MIG obtained, in general, better economic and environmental performance, but did not completely renounce the use of external inputs. Forest cover appears to have increased since the promotion of MIG and agroecology in the region and pasture area decreased, therefore, benefiting forest conservation.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Venue

    Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

  • Publication date

    2021-03-24

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Geography, Economics, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1080/21683565.2021.1896617
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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