Low emission development strategies in agriculture. An agriculture, forestry, and other land uses (AFOLU) perspective

As countries experience economic growth and choose among available development pathways, they are in a favorable position to adopt natural resource use technologies and production practices that favor efficient use of inputs, healthy soils, and ecosystems. Current emphasis on increasing resilience to climate change and reducing agricultural greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions strengthens the support for sustainable agricultural production. In fact, reducing losses in soil fertility, reclaiming degraded lands, and promoting synergistic interaction between crop production and forests are generally seen as good climate change policies. In order for decision-makers to develop long-term policies that address these issues, they must have tools at their disposal that evaluate trade-offs, opportunities, and repercussions of the options considered. In this paper, the authors combine and reconcile the output of three models widely accessible to the public to analyze the impacts of policies that target emission reduction in the agricultural sector. We present an application to Colombia which reveals the importance of considering the full scope of interactions among the various land uses. Results indicate that investments in increasing the efficiency and productivity of the livestock sector and reducing land allocated to pasture are preferable to policies that target deforestation alone or target a reduction of emissions in crop production. Investments in livestock productivity and land-carrying capacity would reduce deforestation and provide sufficient gains in carbon stock to offset greater emissions from increased crop production while generating higher revenues

XVI International Congress of Control Electronics and Telecommunications: "Techno-scientific considerations for a post-pandemic world intensive in knowledge, innovation and sustainable local development"

Este título, sugestivo por los impactos durante la situación de la Covid 19 en el mundo, y que en Colombia lastimosamente han sido muy críticos, permiten asumir la obligada superación de tensiones sociales, políticas, y económicas; pero sobre todo científicas y tecnológicas. Inicialmente, esto supone la existencia de una capacidad de la sociedad colombiana por recuperar su estado inicial después de que haya cesado la perturbación a la que fue sometida por la catastrófica pandemia, y superar ese anterior estado de cosas ya que se encontraban -y aún se encuentran- muchos problemas locales mal resueltos, medianamente resueltos, y muchos sin resolver: es decir, habrá que rediseñar y fortalecer una probada resiliencia social existente - producto del prolongado conflicto social colombiano superado parcialmente por un proceso de paz exitoso - desde la tecnociencia local; como lo indicaba Markus Brunnermeier - economista alemán y catedrático de economía de la Universidad de Princeton- en su libro The Resilient Society…La cuestión no es preveerlo todo sino poder reaccionar…aprender a recuperarse rápido.This title, suggestive of the impacts during the Covid 19 situation in the world, and which have unfortunately been very critical in Colombia, allows us to assume the obligatory overcoming of social, political, and economic tensions; but above all scientific and technological. Initially, this supposes the existence of a capacity of Colombian society to recover its initial state after the disturbance to which it was subjected by the catastrophic pandemic has ceased, and to overcome that previous state of affairs since it was found -and still is find - many local problems poorly resolved, moderately resolved, and many unresolved: that is, an existing social resilience test will have to be redesigned and strengthened - product of the prolonged Colombian social conflict partially overcome by a successful peace process - from local technoscience; As Markus Brunnermeier - German economist and professor of economics at Princeton University - indicates in his book The Resilient Society...The question is not to foresee everything but to be able to react...learn to recover quickly.Bogot

Integral program for the productive and environmental reconversion of livestock farming in Colombia (PIRPAG, as per its Spanish acronym)

The project seeks to evaluate options for livestock conversion in 5 municipalities prioritized for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This proposes four large zones for the implementation of Sustainable Livestock pilots, carrying out activities in cooperation with various institutional actors and 80 livestock-raising families in an intervention area of 1.103 hectares in San Onofre (Sucre) in the humid Caribbean region; Dibulla (La Guajira) in the dry Caribbean region; El Carmen de Chucurí (Santander) in the Piedemonte del Magdalena Medio region and in Tame (Arauca) in the Piedemonte of Orinoco region. Use of secondary information for the download of spatial data on topics related to livestock suitability at the national level. This map was provided by UPRA and allowed establishing optimal and non-optimal zones for livestock production in the selected municipalities. On the other hand, data processing was made with R program for the management of sectoral statistics for the prioritized municipalities. (2021-09). (2021-09

COLOMBIA-FIDUAGRARIA-Sustainable low carbon development in the Orinoco Region

Maps of emissions and mitigation by land use changes in the Eastern Plains of Colombia. Equations applied for the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions by land use change in the Orinoquia Region. (2021-09

Sustainable supply chains in a changing climate: Analysis and recommendations

The Sustainable supply Chains in a Changing Climate report series, seeks to increase knowledge of the relationship between climate change impacts and agricultural value chains in Colombia. This report aims to collect results of the evaluation of the potential risk of climate impact in five relevant agricultural value chains in Colombia: Cocoa, Maize, Potato, cattle milk, and beef, and propose potential adaptation measures requires to reduce the vulnerability. (2021-08