¿Cómo puede la ganadería contribuir a reducir la problemática ambiental del planeta?
Abstract
Humanity today lives in what has been called a “perfect storm”, formed by land degradation, global climate change and population growth. It is called that way because they feed off each other, magnifying the global environmental problem. Livestock farming has been identified as one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, as a contributor to land degradation and global climate change. In the first link of beef production, which is the production of offspring on cattle ranches, the unsustainable use of grazing has caused land degradation, in some cases. When this is of a very large magnitude in terms of recovery time and economic resources necessary to recover livestock ecosystems, it is called desertification. Here we present some sustainable alternatives for the beef production livestock sector, which can contribute to reducing the planet’s environmental problems, based on the theory of functional connectivity of the landscape and multi-year monitoring of areas with management to recover degraded ecosystems.
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