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July2021

Agrosilvopastoral systems

AGROVOC URI
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16096

Embrapa/FARIA/Gabriel Rezende

Motivation: Sustainable production strategy that integrates agriculture, livestock and forestry within the same area, to obtain results which are synergic, environmentally adequate and economically viable. In Brazil, this strategy is fostered by a public policy—National Policy for Integrated crop-livestock-forestry—and part of Embrapa’s official RD&I portfolio.

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