State of art on crop-livestock-forest research in Goiás, Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.6008/CBPC2179-6858.2020.003.0020Keywords:
Literature metrics, Scientific production, Low C agriculture, Brazilian savannahAbstract
Crop-livestock-forest systems (CLF) is a strategy for optimizing use of land, the most important resource for farmers. The CLF requires a holistic approach to achieve economic and environmental viability, via increment of biodiversification in farming systems. One of the principles of CLF is to set mutual benefits among production components, according to peculiarities of each farmer and, therefore, it is not limited to issues of scale. Considering the socioeconomic importance of agribusiness in Goiás, located in the central west region of Brazil and the pressure on natural resources of the Brazilian savannah (Cerrado), the objective of this study was to systematize the published scientific data on CLF implemented in Goiás. We carried on with a searching processes of scientific articles available in the database of the SCIELO platform, an open access portal for scientific communication, between 1985 and April 2019. For this period, a total of 560 articles were found, of which 41 studies were describing CLF in Goiás. The predominance of studies (83%) was found using the searching term “livestock crop integration”. Among these, 32% were related to investigation on how CLF affected soil quality. Mostly, 68% of the studies were related to investigation of weeds suppression, performance of cover and forage plants and environmental impact assessment. In our research studies related to costs for implementation, capital return on investment, assessment of the environmental benefits for the community were not found, reinforcing the lack of information about the socioeconomic relevance of CLF.
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