Silvopastoral Systems (SPS) in the Tropics and Subtropics

摘要: Silvopasture is a broad term encompassing different forms of integrating trees, forage, and domesticated animals on the same unit of land. The practice ranges from the traditional, extensive animal grazing under woodlots and forests to modernized intensive forms of tree–animal integration. These can broadly be grouped under two categories: grazing system where cattle graze on pasture under scattered or systematically planted stands of trees; and the browsing (tree-fodder) systems, in which the animals are usually stall-fed with fodder from trees or shrubs grown on farms and farm boundaries. Most silvopasture systems (SPS) in Africa, South Asia, and other developing regions of the world involve extensive open grazing by free-roaming animals under natural stands of trees and shrubs. Major examples are found in the so-called Parklands of sub-Saharan Africa, the Brazilian Cerrado (wet savanna) and …