Sustainable grazing systems可持续放牧系统.pdf

Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition
and Consumer Protection Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Sustainable grazing systems

In Latin America, even small "payments for environmental services" have
encouraged livestock owners to adopt silvo-pastoral systems that improve
productivity and reduce pressure to destroy native forests
FAO is helping pioneer in Colombia, Costa Rica
and Nicaragua a new approach to slowing the
rate of deforestation and erosion of biodiversity:
paying livestock owners to plant trees, fodder
shrubs and "live fences" in and around pastures
where their cattle graze. Under a $ million
project funded by the Global Environment
Facility, some 450 farmers are participating in a
"payment for environmental services" (PES)
scheme that rewards land use improvements
leading to increased carbon sequestration and
wildlife protection.
The project was launched in 2002 - with
support from the World Bank and the multi-
agency Livestock, Environment and
Development (LEAD) initiative, hosted by FAO -
to explore innovative livestock husbandry are already well documented. Fodder shrubs and
strategies in degraded grazing areas and to test legumes return atmospheric nitrogen to the soil,
whether PES might help discourage widespread and tree roots recycle nutrients from deep in the
destruction of forest c