Land - use intensification trends in the Rio de la Plata region of South America : towar specialization or recoupling crop and livestock production

• Autores: Faccio Carvalho, Paulo César de; Savian, Jean Víctor; Della Chiesa, Tomás; Souza, William de; Terra, José Alfredo; Pinto, Priscila; Posselt Martins, Amanda; Villarino, Sebastián Horacio; Trindade, Júlio Kuhn da; Albuquerque Nunes, Pedro Arthur de; Piñeiro, Gervasio
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering; Vol.8, no.1; 97-110; https://journal.hep.com.cn/
• Materia: GRAZING; INTEGRATED CROP LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS; MIXED CROPS LIVESTOCK; PAMPA
• Institución: Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía

Fil: Faccio Carvalho, Paulo César de. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems Research Group. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Fil: Savian, Jean Víctor. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA). Estación Experimental INIA Treinta y Tres. Treinta y Tres, Uruguay.
Fil: Della Chiesa, Tomás. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Della Chiesa, Tomás. CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Souza, William de. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems Research Group. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Fil: Terra, José Alfredo. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA). Estación Experimental INIA Treinta y Tres. Treinta y Tres, Uruguay.
Fil: Pinto, Priscila. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Pinto, Priscila. CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Posselt Martins, Amanda. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems Research Group. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Fil: Villarino, Sebastián Horacio. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP). Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Unidad Integrada Balcarce. Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Villarino, Sebastián Horacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce (EEA Balcarce), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Trindade, Júlio Kuhn da. Department of Agricultural Research and Diagnosis. Secretariat of Agriculture. Livestock and Rural Development of Rio Grande do Sul. Brazil.
Fil: Albuquerque Nunes, Pedro Arthur de. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems Research Group. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Fil: Piñeiro, Gervasio. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Piñeiro, Gervasio. CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Piñeiro, Gervasio. Universidad de la República. Facultad de Agronomía. Uruguay.
The Rio de la Plata region comprises central Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. Modern agriculture developed around 1900 with recent decades being characterized by the advance of cropping areas over native grasslands. Highly specialized agriculture has decoupled crop and livestock production but has succeeded in intensifying yields. However, significant losses of ecosystemservices have been reported. Thus, questions have been raised on the sustainability of this pathway. A glance at world regions that have experienced similar trends suggests that an urgent course correction is needed. A major concern has been the lack of diversity in regions with highly specialized agriculture, promoting renewed interest in integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS), not only because ICLS are more diverse than specialized systems, but also because they are rare examples of reconciliation between agroecosystem intensification and environmental quality. Consequently, this paper discusses alternatives to redesign multifunctional landscapes based on ICLS. Recent data provide evidence that recoupling crop and animal production increases the resilience of nutrient cycling functions and economic indicators to external stressors, enabling these systems to face climate-market uncertainty and reconcile food production with the provision of diverse ecosystem services. Finally, these concepts are exemplified in case studies where this perspective has been successfully applied.
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