Integrating crop pollination management, native beekeeping, and silvopastoral systems to improve the cattle sector’s sustainability in Latin America

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climate
cg.creator.identifierJuan Andrés Cardoso Arango: 0000-0002-0252-4655
cg.creator.identifierStefan Burkart: 0000-0001-5297-2184
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.tropentag.de/2022/abstracts/posters/44.pdfen
cg.speciesCajanus cajanen
cg.speciesCentrosema spp.en
cg.speciesChamaecrista rotundifoliaen
cg.speciesDesmodium spp.en
cg.speciesGliricidia sepiumen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatTROPICAL FORAGESen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatPLANT GENETIC RESOURCESen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatECONOMICSen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible consumption and productionen
dc.contributor.authorNarjes, Manuel Ernestoen
dc.contributor.authorCardoso, Juan Andrésen
dc.contributor.authorBurkart, Stefanen
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-03T09:36:16Zen
dc.date.available2022-10-03T09:36:16Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/122002
dc.titleIntegrating crop pollination management, native beekeeping, and silvopastoral systems to improve the cattle sector’s sustainability in Latin Americaen
dcterms.abstractInsect pollinator biodiversity and occurrence is on global decline, threatening human food supply and ecosystem functions. Extensive, pasture monoculture cattle production systems in tropical Latin America are among the principal drivers of this decline. This, in combination with other environmental problems caused by the conventional cattle sector, such as deforestation or greenhouse gas emissions, puts emphasis on the development of alternative, more sustainable production systems. One solution is the inclusion of forage legumes (fabaceae) in cattle production systems, for example as forage banks or within silvo-pastoral systems (SPS), which are mostly pollinated by insects, in particular bees. Such systems have been widely promoted to improve livestock production and soil fertility, but not to enhance ecosystem services from pollinators. Shortages of seed for the establishment of legumes as forage banks or within pastures or SPS remain a bottleneck for the improvement of ecosystem services brought about by pollinators within these systems and beyond. Against this background and based on literature review, we provide an overview of forage legumes, their interplay with pollinators, and the ecological and socio-economic benefits of pollinator–forage legume interactions, at different scales (farm and landscape level). We also discuss the challenges and opportunities of scaling these sustainably intensified cattle production systems that integrate legume forage-seed production with principles of pollinator ecology and native beekeeping. Our analysis shows that the main benefits include the provision of habitats for pollinators on decline and the promotion of legume seed required for the wider adoption of sustainable, forage-based cattle systems. This comes along with livelihood benefits for the producers, who can diversify (cattle production, legume seed production, honey making) and increase their incomes. At the landscape level, the interplay of pollinators and forage legumes can positively affect the yield of nearby pollinator-dependent crops. Finally, we provide interested stakeholders, policy- and decision-makers with a perspective on how such agroecosystems may be designed and scaled into multifunctional landscapes. This includes the improvement of enabling conditions, such as policies, knowledge transfer, payment schemes for ecosystem services, incentives, and new value chains.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
dcterms.audienceNGOsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNarjes, M.; Cardoso, J.A.; Burkart, S. (2022) Integrating crop pollination management, native beekeeping, and silvopastoral systems to improve the cattle sector’s sustainability in Latin America. Poster prepared for Tropentag 2022 - Can Agroecological Farming Feed the World? Farmers' and Academia's Views. Prague, Czech Republic, 14-16 September 2022. Cali (Colombia): Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. 1 p.en
dcterms.extent1 p.en
dcterms.issued2022-09-15
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherAlliance of Bioversity International and CIATen
dcterms.subjectecosystem servicesen
dcterms.subjectmeliponicultureen
dcterms.subjectnature-based solutionsen
dcterms.subjectpollinatorsen
dcterms.subjectsustainable intensificationen
dcterms.subjectcattleen
dcterms.subjectfeed legumesen
dcterms.subjectsilvopastoral systemsen
dcterms.subjectgandao bovinoen
dcterms.subjectservicios de los ecosistemasen
dcterms.subjectleguminosas forrajerasen
dcterms.subjectmeliponiculturaen
dcterms.typePoster

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