Large-scale pasture restoration may not be the best option to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil

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dc.creatorEvandro Lima Batista
dc.creatorBritaldo Silveira Soares Filho
dc.creatorFabiano Alvim Barbosa
dc.creatorFrank Merry
dc.creatorJuliana Leroy Davis
dc.creatorRichard van der Hoff
dc.creatorRaoni Guerra Rajão
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T20:59:05Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T01:33:31Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T20:59:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-06
dc.description.sponsorshipCNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
dc.format.mimetypepdf
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5139
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/52296
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.relation.ispartofEnviromental Research Letters
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectAmazônia
dc.subjectEcologia
dc.subjectMudanças climáticas - Amazônia
dc.subjectAgropecuária
dc.subject.otherLand use policy
dc.subject.otherCattle ranching intensification
dc.subject.otherThe Brazilian Amazon
dc.subject.otherLife cycle analysis
dc.subject.otherClimate change mitigation
dc.titleLarge-scale pasture restoration may not be the best option to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil
dc.typeArtigo de periódico
local.citation.epage12
local.citation.issue125009
local.citation.spage1
local.citation.volume14
local.description.resumoCattle ranching accounts for 44% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the land use sector in Brazil. In response, Brazil has proposed a massive pasture restoration program that aspires to make ranching more competitive while at the same time reducing associated GHG emissions. Pasture restoration, however, is only one of several intensification options that could be employed to achieve these goals. Here we analyze potential production, economic return and GHG emissions from an intensification strategy based mainly on pasture restoration and compare its productive, economic and GHG emissions performances with intensification options more focused on supplemental feeding (grain-feed supplementation of grazing animals and animal finishing in feedlots). To this end, we developed a multi-sectoral, deterministic simulation model of the ranching system and applied it to Mato Grosso state, the largest producer and earliest adopter of intensive production. To account for GHG emissions, we performed a life cycle analysis of a complete beef production cycle. Our results show that an intensification strategy focused more heavily on pasture restoration does reduce GHG emissions but produces the least favorable economic and GHG emissions outcomes when compared with a range of supplemental feeding alternatives. In view of these results, Brazil should seek a more diversified strategies for cattle intensification in its climate mitigation policy.
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-946X
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1133-4837
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-3821
local.publisher.countryBrasil
local.publisher.departmentENG - DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA PRODUÇÃO
local.publisher.departmentIGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA
local.publisher.departmentVET - DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOTECNIA
local.publisher.initialsUFMG
local.url.externahttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5139

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