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Urochloa hybrid adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean 2001–2024: an analysis of the land use, social, economic, and environmental impacts in 27 countries

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionSustainable intensification of tropical cattle production is essential to meet growing demand for animal-sourced foods while reducing environmental degradation. Improved interspecific Urochloa (syn. Brachiaria) hybrids have been promoted as a
Stefan Burkart, John Jairo Junca Paredes, Danny Sandoval, Natalia Triana Ángel, Mateo Pazos Cárdenas, Andrés Felipe Ruiz-Hurtado, Mauricio Sotelo, Juan Andrés Cardoso, Luis Miguel Hernandez, Rosa Jauregui, Jacobo Arango   +10 more
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A Transcriptomic Analysis of Stylo [Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw.] Provides Novel Insights Into the Basis of Salinity Tolerance

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Tropical areas have a large distribution of saline soils and tidal flats with a high salinity level. Salinity stress is a key factor limiting the widespread use of tropical forage such as Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw.
Yiming Liu, Danyu Kong, Hubiao Yang, Sabine Douxchamps, Mary Atieno, Bin Xu, Wenqiang Wang, Guodao Liu   +7 more
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Measuring smallholder dairy farmers’ social valuation of climate mitigation: a case study from Kenya

Pastoralism
Livestock systems in Sub-Saharan Africa contribute substantially to greenhouse gas emissions and are highly vulnerable to climate change. In Kenya, smallholder dairy farmers need to balance productivity with environmental sustainability while facing ...
Jesús Fernando Flórez, Ricardo González-Quintero, Mateo Pazos Cárdenas, Natalia Triana Ángel, Valentina Enciso, Kenneth Waluse, An Notenbaert, Stefan Burkart   +7 more
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Nutritional Characteristics of Forage Grown in South of Benin [PDF]

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2016
In order to provide recommendations on the most useful forage species to smallholder farmers, eleven grass and eleven legume forages grown in Abomey-Calavi in Republic of Benin were investigated for nutritive value (i.e.
Nadia Musco, Ivan B. Koura, Raffaella Tudisco, Ghislain Awadjihè, Sebastien Adjolohoun, Monica I. Cutrignelli, Maria Pina Mollica, Marcel Houinato, Federico Infascelli, Serena Calabrò   +9 more
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Root exudate fingerprint of Brachiaria humidicola reveals vanillin as a novel and effective nitrification inhibitor

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023
Introduction: Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) is defined as the plant-mediated control of soil nitrification via the release of nitrification inhibitors. BNI of Brachiaria humidicola (syn. Urochloa humidicola) has been mainly attributed to root-
Konrad Egenolf, Konrad Egenolf, Jochen Schöne, Jürgen Conrad, Christina Braunberger, Uwe Beifuß, Jacobo Arango, Frank Rasche   +7 more
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Perspectives on Reducing the National Milk Deficit and Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Dairy Value Chain in Zimbabwe

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The Zimbabwean dairy industry is massively underperforming, as evidenced by a reduction in milk yield from 262 million liters in 1990 to <37 million liters in 2009 and a steady but slow increase to 82 million liters in 2021.
Ngonidzashe Chirinda, Chrispen Murungweni, Addmore Waniwa, Justice Nyamangara, Aziza Tangi, Michael Peters, An Notenbaert, Stefan Burkart   +7 more
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Mulato II (Brachiaria sp.)

EDIS, 2011
Mulato II is a semi-erect perennial apomictic grass that can grow up to 9 ft tall. Brachiariagrasses, including Mulato II, are tropical warm season forages native to Africa and are the most widely grown forages in tropical South America.
Joao Vendramini, Brent Sellers, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Maria Silveira   +3 more
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Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America

Heliyon
The cattle sector plays a pivotal role in the economies of numerous Latin American and Caribbean countries. However, it also exerts a significant impact on environmental degradation, including substantial contributions to greenhouse gas emissions ...
Danny Fernando Sandoval, John Jairo Junca Paredes, Karen Johanna Enciso Valencia, Manuel Francisco Díaz Baca, Aura María Bravo Parra, Stefan Burkart   +5 more
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Risk-sensitive foraging in a tropical lizard

Biology Letters
Foraging opportunities can be unpredictable. When foragers face a choice between resources that vary in predictability, foraging decisions not only depend on the profitability of food but also on their physiological state. This risk-sensitive foraging approach, in which animals take greater foraging risks when starving, remains relatively ...
Avik Banerjee, Maria Thaker
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A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais, S. Peng, J. Chang, F. Li, Q. Zhu, K. Yuan, G. Hugelius, H. Li, Y. Cai, F. Chevallier, K. Tibrewal, E. A. Kort, K. Arndt, J. Watts, B. Buma, N. Besic, P. I. Palmer, H. Cadillo‐Quiroz, E. Euskirchen, M. J. Gondwe, A. Hoyt, R. Jackson, S. Malone, D. Monteverde, S. Natali, M. Ramonet, C. Rey‐Sanchez, L. B. Sagang, E. A. G. Schuur, R. Vargas, R. Varner, Z. Zhang, B. Poulter   +32 more
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