Abstract Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) is a developing region characterized for its
importance for global food security, producing 23 and 11% of the global beef and milk …

Climate change is a major constraint on the sustainability of the humid tropics, maintaining
ecosystem services, food production, and social functioning. Humid tropics play an essential …

Brazil is the largest exporter and the second-largest beef producer in the world. The
country's biggest challenge has been to increase the production capacity of soils in an …

Grazing lands cover more than one-third of the terrestrial land surface and are still
expanding. The intensity of grazing is also growing with time due to the increase in the …

The production of beef cattle in the Atlantic Forest biome mostly takes place in pastoral
production systems. There are millions of hectares covered with pastures in this biome …

Forest restoration mitigates climate change by removing CO 2 and storing C in terrestrial
ecosystems. However, incomplete information on C storage in restored tropical forests often …

Agricultural areas under integrated production systems, such as Integrated Crop-Livestock-
Forest System (CLFS), have the potential to sequestrate carbon (C) since both Soil Organic …

Tropical pastures play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and are crucial for world
livestock production. Despite its importance, there is a paucity of field studies that clarify how …

Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from anthropogenic activities have contributed
to global warming and consequently to climate change. Among all sources of emissions, the …

Brazilian cattle production is mostly carried out in pastures, and the need to mitigate the
livestock's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its environmental footprint has become an …