Author(s): PACHECO, A. R.; REIS, C. A. F.; SANTOS, A. M.; RODRIGUES, G. S.; BUSCHINELLI, C. C. de A.

Summary: The implementation of the crop-livestock-forest (ILPF) integration system at Fazenda Boa Vereda arose from the motivation to combine innovation and sustainability, which gave rise to the neologism ?innovability?. Until then, the farm had beef cattle ranching as its main activity, but it had low economic profitability, in addition to large extensions of areas with degraded pastures. Thus, support was requested to the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) looking for an alternative form of innovability to change this scenario, that is, the ILPF system. The implementation of the ILPF system was carried out in stages on the farm, and various configurations of the system were evaluated, as a way to obtain greater synergy among the components and achieve improvements, especially in terms of economic and environmental aspects. Because of the success obtained with the ILPF system at Fazenda Boa Vereda, it became a Technological Reference Unit (URT) of Embrapa. In this context, in partnership with different institutions, efforts were made to carry out numerous Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) and Technology Transfer (TT) actions, favoring the dissemination of ILPF systems in Brazil and in several countries. Over 12 years, 79 technical-scientific publications and 153 TT actions were computed, which has contributed to the expansion of the adoption of the ILPF system in several Brazilian farms.

Publication year: 2021

Types of publication: Paper in annals and proceedings

Unit: Embrapa Forestry

Keywords: Agrosilvopastoral system, Income diversification, Pesquisa e inovação, Research and innovation, Sistema agrossilvipastoril, Technology transfer, Transferência de Tecnologia