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- Title
A new climate for grazing livestock.
- Authors
Palmer, Lisa
- Abstract
The article features the sustainable cattle ranching programme implemented by cattle rancher Carlos Hernando Molina in southwestern Colombia. It states that Molina has replaced his 130 hectares of grasslands with special varieties of leguminous trees, shrubs and grasses in his pastures while raising cows that boosted his income and restored the degraded soil. It notes that Molina's move to agroforestry agroforestrys part of a global trend to sustainably to improve agricultural production.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; RANCHING; MOLINA, Carlos Hernando; SUSTAINABLE agriculture; AGRICULTURAL productivity; AGROFORESTRY
- Publication
Nature Climate Change, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 5, p321
- ISSN
1758-678X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nclimate2215