Silvopastoral systems of Meso America and Northern South America

Dr. Julián Chará is the research coordinator of CIPAV (Centre for Research on Sustainable Agriculture) in Colombia. With over 30 years of experience in the field of sustainable cattle ranching, watershed protection and environmental services, he is the coordinator of the Global Network of Silvopastoral Systems and leads several projects related to sustainable cattle ranching, climate change mitigation and silvopastoral systems in Colombia. He coordinated the preparation of the project “Mainstreaming biodiversity in sustainable cattle ranching” that established over 30,000 ha of silvopastoral systems in Colombia. He has published over 30 articles, book chapters and books, and is the coordinator of Editorial CIPAV and Associate Editor of the Journal Agroforestry Systems.Dr. Shibu Jose is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. Previously he served as the Directorof the School of Natural Resources and also led the Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri. He also served as the editor-in-chief of Agroforestry Systems, the premier journal in the field of agroforestry, published by Springer-Nature for 14 years. He has led major interdisciplinary research projects involving agronomists, plant breeders, soil scientists, animal scientists, natural resource scientists and socio-economists. He uses ecological information in designing agroforestry systems and restoring degraded and damaged ecosystems. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Jose and his research team have conducted studies in the U.S., Australia, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India.

• Sustainable Silvopastoral Systems: Basic Design and Management Considerations.- Silvopastoral Systems and their role in climate change mitigation and Nationally Determined Contributions in Latin America.- Silvopastoral Systems: A Pathway To Scale-Up Restoration In Colombia.- Could Biomass Revolution Be Achieved with Silvopastoral Systems?.- Effect of silvopastoral systems on biodiversity and the provision of environmental services in tropical agro-landscapes.- Silvopastoral systems as an alternative of dairy cattle production in tropical pastures.- Silvopastoral Systems in Paraguay.- Development of silvopastoral systems in the Peruvian Amazon.- Silvopastoral systems in Colombia: From pilot farms to NDCs.- Agro-silvopastoral systems for the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia.- Agroecological Transition for Sustainable Cattle Ranching with Silvopastoral Systems in the High Andean Slopes of Colombia.- Silvopastoral systems with native tree species in Venezuela.- Silvopasture in Panama: An overview of research and practice.- Increasing biodiversity in livestock production systems: Plant traits and natural regeneration capacity of woody vegetation in actively managed grasslands.- Sexual Reproduction in Tithonia diversifolia and the Implications for Its Use in Intensive Silvopastoral Systems.- Silvopastoral Systems with Leucaena leucocephala and Tithonia diversifolia in Cuba.