Rural Economy, Environment and Society, SRUC, The Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK.
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK.
Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 28;13(1):12252. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39038-0.
Current land use systems in the Amazon largely consist of extensive conventional productivist livestock operations that drive deforestation. Silvopastoral systems (SPS) support a transition to low carbon production if they intensify in sympathy with the needs of biophysical and socio-economic contexts. SPS have been promoted for decades as an alternative livestock production system but widespread uptake has yet to be seen. We provide a schema of associating factors for adoption of SPS based on past literature in tropical agriculture and apply this to a bespoke survey of 172 farms in the Caquetá region of the Colombian Amazon. We find a number of factors which do not apply to this region and argue for a context specific approach. The impact of managing increased market access and opportunities for SPS producers are crucial to avoiding additional deforestation. Further understanding of the underlying antecedents of common factors, such as perceptions of silvopastoral systems, would reduce the risk of perverse policy outcomes.
目前亚马逊地区的土地利用系统主要包括大规模的传统产品主义畜牧业，这些畜牧业推动了森林砍伐。如果与生物物理和社会经济背景的需求相协调，森林-畜牧业系统（SPS）可以支持向低碳生产的转变。几十年来，SPS 一直被作为一种替代畜牧业生产系统来推广，但尚未得到广泛采用。我们根据热带农业的过往文献提供了一个采用 SPS 的关联因素方案，并将其应用于对哥伦比亚亚马逊地区卡克塔地区的 172 个农场的专门调查。我们发现了一些不适用于该地区的因素，并主张采取具体情况具体分析的方法。管理增加的市场准入和 SPS 生产者机会的影响对于避免额外的森林砍伐至关重要。进一步了解共同因素的潜在前提，例如对森林-畜牧业系统的看法，将降低政策结果出现偏差的风险。
