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dc.titleUpscaling Silvopastoral Systems in South America
dc.contributor.authorSolymosi, Katalin
dc.contributor.authorBraun, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorDijk, Suzanne van
dc.contributor.authorGrulke, Markus
dc.contributor.orgunitAgriculture and Rural Development Division
dc.coverageParaguay
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.date.available2016-11-01T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-10-25T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThe world population is expected to increase from approximately 2.5 billion in 1950 to almost 10 billion in 2050, exhibiting the highest population growth rates in history. Securing the supply of wood and timber from sustainable sources without competing for agricultural land and food production has already become a challenge in many parts of the world.South America has had the advantage of being a large continent with a relatively small population, of which a large share lives in urban areas. Historically, these conditions have permitted inefficient land-use systems such as extensive livestock grazing for beef production. However, in recent decades export-oriented industrial agriculture has become the main driver of South American land use patterns, increasing the pressure for more efficient and intensive production systems. Specialization and intensification in the land use sector have brought economic and productive benefits at a cost. They have caused the massive destruction of natural ecosystems while at the same time making national economies highly dependent on a reduced number of export products. Therefore opportunities for intensification on extensive grazing land and other inefficient land uses (often on marginal land) have to be considered. Particularly in times of pressing global environmental change and increasingly complex trade relationships, land use intensification has to take into account economic, environmental and social objectives and increase the resilience of the system as a whole.
dc.format.extent42
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012820
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Upscaling-Silvopastoral-Systems-in-South-America.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Incremento-de-los-Sistemas-Silvopastoriles-en-America-del-Sur.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectBiomass
dc.subjectBest Practices
dc.subjectLand Use
dc.subjectAgroforestry
dc.subjectBiodiversity Conservation
dc.subjectEnvironmental Economy
dc.subjectEcosystem Service
dc.subjectAgroforestry
dc.subjectRural Development
dc.subject.jelcodeO11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeQ15 - Land Ownership and Tenure • Land Reform • Land Use • Irrigation • Agriculture and Environment
dc.subject.jelcodeD2 - Production and Organizations
dc.subject.jelcodeQ5 - Environmental Economics
dc.subject.jelcodeQ23 - Forestry
dc.subject.jelcodeQ24 - Land
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeR14 - Land Use Patterns
dc.subject.jelcodeQ14 - Agricultural Finance
idb.identifier.pubnumberMonographs
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