Urochloa in Tropical Agroecosystems

JLC Baptistella, SAL de Andrade, JL Favarin… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Increasing biodiversity is an important issue in more secure and sustainable agriculture.
Diversified systems are more resilient to climate change, environmental stresses and …

Social and ecological analysis of commercial integrated crop livestock systems: Current knowledge and remaining uncertainty

RD Garrett, MT Niles, JDB Gil, A Gaudin… - Agricultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Crops and livestock play a synergistic role in global food production and farmer livelihoods.
Increasingly, however, crops and livestock are produced in isolation, particularly in farms …

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

K Georgiou, RB Jackson, O Vindušková… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil is the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon and is central for climate change
mitigation and carbon-climate feedbacks. Chemical and physical associations of soil carbon …

Land use and management effects on sustainable sugarcane-derived bioenergy

MR Cherubin, JLN Carvalho, CEP Cerri, LAH Nogueira… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bioenergy is an important and feasible option for mitigating global warming and climate
change. However, large-scale land-use change (LUC) to expand bioenergy crops, such as …

Soil carbon stock changes in tropical croplands are mainly driven by carbon inputs: A synthesis

K Fujisaki, T Chevallier, L Chapuis-Lardy… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) balance is an important component of the terrestrial carbon (C)
budget. However, effect of cropland management changes on SOC dynamics has not been …

Adoption and development of integrated crop–livestock–forestry systems in Mato Grosso, Brazil

J Gil, M Siebold, T Berger - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2015 - Elsevier
By combining crop, livestock and/or forestry activities in the same area, integrated systems
(IS) can increase organic matter content in the soil–which favors biomass production and …

Integrated crop-livestock systems: A sustainable land-use alternative for food production in the Brazilian Cerrado and Amazon

JC dos Reis, GS Rodrigues, I de Barros… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable intensification of agriculture is central to deal with the challenges of feeding a
growing population while promoting a rational use of environmental and economic …

Potential of crop-livestock integration to enhance carbon sequestration and agroecosystem functioning in semi-arid croplands

KM Brewer, ACM Gaudin - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
While characteristics of semi-arid climates place limitations on soil organic carbon (SOC)
storage, there is opportunity and urgency for increasing the quality and long-term …

Intensification: A Key Strategy to Achieve Great Animal and Environmental Beef Cattle Production Sustainability in Brachiaria Grasslands

AS Cardoso, RP Barbero, EP Romanzini… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intensification of tropical grassland can be a strategy to increase beef production, but
methods for achieving this should maintain or reduce its environmental impact and should …

Integrated farming systems influence soil organic matter dynamics in southeastern Brazil

W Bieluczyk, M de Cássia Piccolo, MG Pereira… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrated farming systems are sustainable strategies to intensify land productivity by
combining annual crop, livestock and/or forestry activities in different spatio-temporal …