Title
Project facts
Date:
01/01/2012 31/12/2020
Payment Mechanisms / Support:
Funding: UK Government, Global Environmen Facility
Organizations: Colombian Cattle Ranchers Federation (Fedegan), CIPAV, The Nature Conservancy, Fondo Acción.
Supervision: The World Bank
Country: Colombia
Region: Latin America
Site: Five Regions of the Country
Contact:
FEDEGAN: Juan Carlos Gómez [email protected]
CIPAV: Julian [email protected]
Case overview
Main Challenges
Knowledge sharing, Pasture degradation, Improve sustainable livestock production, Restoring grassland, Sustainable grassland management, Reduce Household poverty
Starting point/ Challenges
Very low productive parameters:
Stocking rate: 0.5 AU/ha
Weigth gain: less than 0.3 Kg / day
Land degradation due to overgrazing
Purpose/ Objectives addressed, Results expected
3.000 small and medium-scale cattle farmers adopting SPS in five regions of Colombia
Adoption of environmentally-friendly production systems
Increase structural and functional connectivity in strategic ecosystems
Increase the provision of environmental services.
Increase the productivity in participant farms.
Type of Case
Research, Capacity building, Land development, Livestock development, Climate change mitigation/adaptation
Exploring potential / Specific payments
Payment of environmental services, contribution to the NAMA of Sustainable Bovine Livestock in Colombia
| Agroecological zone | Sub-humid (180 < x < 270 LGP) |
| Land area size (km2) | 80,100 Hectares of sustainable production systems |
| Number of people | 4,100 farmers |
| Sub-area | 4,100 farmers 80,100 Hectares of sustainable production systems (Silvopastoral systems: Scattered trees in pastures, intensive Silvopastoral Systems, Live fences, fodder banks, hedgerows, improved rotational grazing) |
| Land ownership | Private |
| Ownership comments | |
| Livestock system | Silvopastoral |
| Livestock Type: | Cattle |
| Comment livestock systems: | Beef cattle, Cow-calf, Dual Purpose Cattle, Dairy cattle. |
| Operating environment: | free market |
| Participants in the case/project: | unding: UK Government, Global Environmen Facility Organizations: Colombian Cattle Ranchers Federation (Fedegan), CIPAV, The Nature Conservancy, Fondo Acción. Supervision: The World Bank |
| Methods / Approaches applied to reach objectives: | Technical Assistance Payment of Environmental Services Demonstrative farms Research and Innovation |
Outcome/ Beneficiaries/ Issues
Sustainability regarding economic issues
30% increase in stocking rate
21% increase in milk production per cow
Sustainability regarding social issues
More than 8,000 farmers trained in sustainable production practices
Sustainability regarding ecological issues
18,000 ha of mature forest protected within farms.
31,000 ha of silvopastoral systems implemented.
Increased richness and abundance of vegetation, dung beetles and birds in the silvopastoral systems promoted
Knowledge Exchange
Key Conflicts / Problems
Lack of formal land ownershipLow access to credit
Lessons learnt
Live fences and hedgerows are a good strategy to increase tree cover in the farmsTechnical assistance is a very valuable and effective strategy to improve sustainability in cattle farming.
Farmers respond well to technical assistance and payment of environmental services.
Research Gaps
Many of the native tree species lack of information about propagation, management and us
Source of information
http://ganaderiacolombianasostenible.co/web/
Keywords:
Silvopastoral systems
Live fences
Payment of environmental services