Research on Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Brazil

Revista Ciência Agronômica

Sebastião Brasil Campos Lustosa¹  Anibal de Moraes²  Claudete Reisdorfer Lang²  Leonardo Deiss²  Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho³ 

[1] Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste;Universidade Federal do Paraná;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul;

关键词: Conservation agriculture;    Sustainability;    Scientific production;    Agricultural technology;    Systematic approach;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1806-66902014000500018

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) are designed to exploit synergisms and emergent properties resulting from interactions between different soil-plant-animal-atmosphere compartments that integrate themselves at different spatial-temporal scales. In this review, a panorama of the evolution of studies based on ICLS is presented. Specific keywords were used as search terms to construct a database of 450 articles from 93 national and international journals published up to and including 2013. These articles were classified according to the region of origin within Brazil (subtropical or tropical) and categorized regarding the studied components: soil, plant, animal and 'others'. Within these components, groups of variables that could characterize the different thematic lines were listed. The number of publications worldwide has been increasing, and Brazil is one of the main suppliers of scientific work within this area. Although the number of scientific studies seeking better understanding of ICLS may have increased in Brazil, further studies with a systematic view and with larger temporal and spatial scales are still required to help identify interactions between diverse biotic and abiotic factors that define new properties that emerge from these systems.

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