Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems
Agricultural producers grapple with low farm yields and declining ecosystem services within their landscapes. In several instances, agricultural production systems may be considered largely unsustainable in socioeconomic and ecological (resource conservation and use and impact on nature) terms. Nove...
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Ngonidzashe Chirinda Laura Arenas Sandra Loaiza Catalina Trujillo Maria Katto Paula Chaparro Jonathan Nuñez Jacobo Arango Deissy Martinez-Baron Ana María Loboguerrero Luis A. Becerra Lopez-Lavalle Ivan Avila Myriam Guzmán Michael Peters Jennifer Twyman María García Laura Serna Daniel Escobar Diksha Arora Jeimar Tapasco Lady Mazabel Fernando Correa Manabu Ishitani Mayesse Da Silva Eduardo Graterol Santiago Jaramillo Adriana Pinto Andres Zuluaga Nelson Lozano Ryan Byrnes Gabriel LaHue Carolina Alvarez Idupulapati Rao Rolando Barahona |
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Ngonidzashe Chirinda Laura Arenas Sandra Loaiza Catalina Trujillo Maria Katto Paula Chaparro Jonathan Nuñez Jacobo Arango Deissy Martinez-Baron Ana María Loboguerrero Luis A. Becerra Lopez-Lavalle Ivan Avila Myriam Guzmán Michael Peters Jennifer Twyman María García Laura Serna Daniel Escobar Diksha Arora Jeimar Tapasco Lady Mazabel Fernando Correa Manabu Ishitani Mayesse Da Silva Eduardo Graterol Santiago Jaramillo Adriana Pinto Andres Zuluaga Nelson Lozano Ryan Byrnes Gabriel LaHue Carolina Alvarez Idupulapati Rao Rolando Barahona Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems Sustainability rice livestock cassava leaves forage greenhouse gases |
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Ngonidzashe Chirinda Laura Arenas Sandra Loaiza Catalina Trujillo Maria Katto Paula Chaparro Jonathan Nuñez Jacobo Arango Deissy Martinez-Baron Ana María Loboguerrero Luis A. Becerra Lopez-Lavalle Ivan Avila Myriam Guzmán Michael Peters Jennifer Twyman María García Laura Serna Daniel Escobar Diksha Arora Jeimar Tapasco Lady Mazabel Fernando Correa Manabu Ishitani Mayesse Da Silva Eduardo Graterol Santiago Jaramillo Adriana Pinto Andres Zuluaga Nelson Lozano Ryan Byrnes Gabriel LaHue Carolina Alvarez Idupulapati Rao Rolando Barahona |
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Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems |
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Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems |
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Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems |
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Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems |
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Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock Systems |
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novel technological and management options for accelerating transformational changes in rice and livestock systems |
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Agricultural producers grapple with low farm yields and declining ecosystem services within their landscapes. In several instances, agricultural production systems may be considered largely unsustainable in socioeconomic and ecological (resource conservation and use and impact on nature) terms. Novel technological and management options that can serve as vehicles to promote the provision of multiple benefits, including the improvement of smallholder livelihoods, are needed. We call for a paradigm shift to allow designing and implementing agricultural systems that are not only efficient (serving as a means to promote development based on the concept of creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and creating less waste) but can also be considered synergistic (symbiotic relationship between socio-ecological systems) by simultaneously contributing to major objectives of economic, ecological, and social (equity) improvement of agro-ecosystems. These transformations require strategic approaches that are supported by participatory system-level research, experimentation, and innovation. Using data from several studies, we here provide evidence for technological and management options that could be optimized, promoted, and adopted to enable agricultural systems to be efficient, effective, and, indeed, sustainable. Specifically, we present results from a study conducted in Colombia, which demonstrated that, in rice systems, improved water management practices such as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) reduce methane emissions (~70%). We also show how women can play a key role in AWD adoption. For livestock systems, we present in vitro evidence showing that the use of alternative feed options such as cassava leaves contributes to livestock feed supplementation and could represent a cost-effective approach for reducing enteric methane emissions (22% to 55%). We argue that to design and benefit from sustainable agricultural systems, there is a need for better targeting of interventions that are co-designed, co-evaluated, and co-promoted, with farmers as allies of transformational change (as done in the climate-smart villages), not as recipients of external knowledge. Moreover, for inclusive sustainability that harnesses existing knowledge and influences decision-making processes across scales, there is a need for constant, efficient, effective, and real trans-disciplinary communication and collaboration. |
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doaj-57007ded04cb47018c76b79c11c97d262020-11-25T00:49:49ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502017-10-01911189110.3390/su9111891su9111891Novel Technological and Management Options for Accelerating Transformational Changes in Rice and Livestock SystemsNgonidzashe Chirinda0Laura Arenas1Sandra Loaiza2Catalina Trujillo3Maria Katto4Paula Chaparro5Jonathan Nuñez6Jacobo Arango7Deissy Martinez-Baron8Ana María Loboguerrero9Luis A. Becerra Lopez-Lavalle10Ivan Avila11Myriam Guzmán12Michael Peters13Jennifer Twyman14María García15Laura Serna16Daniel Escobar17Diksha Arora18Jeimar Tapasco19Lady Mazabel20Fernando Correa21Manabu Ishitani22Mayesse Da Silva23Eduardo Graterol24Santiago Jaramillo25Adriana Pinto26Andres Zuluaga27Nelson Lozano28Ryan Byrnes29Gabriel LaHue30Carolina Alvarez31Idupulapati Rao32Rolando Barahona33Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaFederación Nacional de Arroceros (FEDEARROZ), 500001 Villavicencio, ColombiaFederación Nacional de Arroceros (FEDEARROZ), 500001 Villavicencio, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaFondo Latinoamericano para Arroz de Riego (FLAR), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaFondo Latinoamericano para Arroz de Riego (FLAR), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaMinisterio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (MADS), 111711 Bogotá, ColombiaFederación Colombiana de Ganaderos (FEDEGAN), 111711 Bogotá, ColombiaMinisterio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR), 111711 Bogotá, ColombiaDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USADepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USAInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), 1000 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCentro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Apartado Aéreo 6713, Palmira, ColombiaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), 050001 Medellín, ColombiaAgricultural producers grapple with low farm yields and declining ecosystem services within their landscapes. In several instances, agricultural production systems may be considered largely unsustainable in socioeconomic and ecological (resource conservation and use and impact on nature) terms. Novel technological and management options that can serve as vehicles to promote the provision of multiple benefits, including the improvement of smallholder livelihoods, are needed. We call for a paradigm shift to allow designing and implementing agricultural systems that are not only efficient (serving as a means to promote development based on the concept of creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and creating less waste) but can also be considered synergistic (symbiotic relationship between socio-ecological systems) by simultaneously contributing to major objectives of economic, ecological, and social (equity) improvement of agro-ecosystems. These transformations require strategic approaches that are supported by participatory system-level research, experimentation, and innovation. Using data from several studies, we here provide evidence for technological and management options that could be optimized, promoted, and adopted to enable agricultural systems to be efficient, effective, and, indeed, sustainable. Specifically, we present results from a study conducted in Colombia, which demonstrated that, in rice systems, improved water management practices such as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) reduce methane emissions (~70%). We also show how women can play a key role in AWD adoption. For livestock systems, we present in vitro evidence showing that the use of alternative feed options such as cassava leaves contributes to livestock feed supplementation and could represent a cost-effective approach for reducing enteric methane emissions (22% to 55%). We argue that to design and benefit from sustainable agricultural systems, there is a need for better targeting of interventions that are co-designed, co-evaluated, and co-promoted, with farmers as allies of transformational change (as done in the climate-smart villages), not as recipients of external knowledge. Moreover, for inclusive sustainability that harnesses existing knowledge and influences decision-making processes across scales, there is a need for constant, efficient, effective, and real trans-disciplinary communication and collaboration.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/11/1891ricelivestockcassava leavesforagegreenhouse gases |