PMID- 33432505
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210513
LR  - 20210519
IS  - 1573-7438 (Electronic)
IS  - 0049-4747 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Jan 11
TI  - Agroecological practices to support tropical livestock farming systems: a 
      Caribbean and Latin American perspective.
PG  - 111
LID - 10.1007/s11250-020-02537-7 [doi]
AB  - With global climate changes currently occurring, and particularly given the 
      severe energy and food shortages occurring throughout tropical regions, 
      agroecological (AE) systems are drawing renewed attention as an efficient 
      alternative to intensive models of production, particularly unsuitable in regions 
      of the world such as the Caribbean or Latin America. There is a pressing need to 
      focus on livestock farming systems (LFS) and characterize their potential 
      contributions to global sustainability. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to 
      address these multiple and complex problems. Traditionally, LFS have shown their 
      sustainability high potential. The purpose of this work is to highlight solutions 
      to minimize inputs, by describing some success and diverse case studies through 
      the Caribbean. These systems were analyzed at different levels: animal/function, 
      farm/family, and territory/society. This produced a set of guidelines that help 
      to increase the efficiency of tropical systems, particularly those concerned with 
      (1) choosing the best-suited genotypes, while enhancing population biodiversity; 
      (2) matching the farming system to the available resources, feed, and 
      by-products; (3) steering the whole farming system through reproduction 
      management with no hormonal treatment, while facilitating system reproducibility 
      and increasing performances; (4) controlling health constraints instead of 
      annihilating risks and implement an integrated management design to reduce 
      chemical treatments or increase the use of nutraceuticals; and (5) mitigating 
      climate constraints by using soft techniques. In the second part of this work, 
      some integrated systems are described. The Tosoly farm of Colombia, for instance, 
      is conceived as a totally integrated crop-livestock system, allowing the 
      additional production of energy at the farm level. Thus, it epitomizes the 
      positive impact that livestock can exert upon the environment. The case study of 
      Haiti indicates how AE practices can help in designing a pro-poor sustainable 
      milk production system. It concerns an entire dairy sector built all over the 
      country on the basis of micro-units of milk production and processing.
FAU - Alexandre, Gisele
AU  - Alexandre G
AD  - INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniques, 97170 Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, 
      French West Indies, France. gisele.alexandre@inrae.fr.
FAU - Rodriguez, Lylian
AU  - Rodriguez L
AD  - Finca TOSOLY, AP 23, Socorro, Colombia.
FAU - Arece, Javier
AU  - Arece J
AD  - Estacion Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes "Indio Hatuey", Universidad de 
      Matanzas "Camilo Cienfuegos", CP 44280, Matanzas, Cuba.
FAU - Delgadillo, Jose
AU  - Delgadillo J
AD  - Centro de Investigacion en Reproduccion Caprina, Universidad Autonoma Agraria 
      Antonio Narro, C.P. 27054, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico.
FAU - Garcia, Gary Wayne
AU  - Garcia GW
AD  - The Open Tropical Forage-Animal Production Laboratory, Department of Food 
      Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, The University of the West Indies, 
      St. Augustine Campus, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
FAU - Habermeier, Kurt
AU  - Habermeier K
AD  - Plateforme d'Agroecologie et de Developpement Durable (PADED)-Misereor, 10, 
      impasse Basilic, Delmas 65, Haiti.
FAU - Almeida, Andre M
AU  - Almeida AM
AD  - LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 
      Lisbon, Portugal.
FAU - Fanchone, Audrey
AU  - Fanchone A
AD  - INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniques, 97170 Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, 
      French West Indies, France.
FAU - Gourdine, Jean-Luc
AU  - Gourdine JL
AD  - INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniques, 97170 Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, 
      French West Indies, France.
FAU - Archimede, Harry
AU  - Archimede H
AD  - INRA, UR143, Unite de Recherches Zootechniques, 97170 Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, 
      French West Indies, France.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20210111
PL  - United States
TA  - Trop Anim Health Prod
JT  - Tropical animal health and production
JID - 1277355
SB  - IM
MH  - *Animal Husbandry
MH  - Animals
MH  - Caribbean Region
MH  - Colombia
MH  - Farms
MH  - Latin America
MH  - *Livestock
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Agroecology
OT  - Biodiversity
OT  - Livestock system
OT  - Local resources
OT  - Tropics
EDAT- 2021/01/13 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/14 06:00
CRDT- 2021/01/12 06:13
PHST- 2020/06/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/12/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/01/12 06:13 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/01/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s11250-020-02537-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11250-020-02537-7 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Trop Anim Health Prod. 2021 Jan 11;53(1):111. doi: 10.1007/s11250-020-02537-7.