The impact of COVID-19 on the sustainable intensification of forage-based beef and dairy value chains in Colombia: a blessing and a curse
The impact of COVID-19 on the sustainable intensification of forage-based beef and dairy value chains in Colombia: a blessing and a curse
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DOI：
10.17138/tgft(10)237-248
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发表时间：
2022-09-01
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0.7
通讯作者：
van der Hoek, Rein
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作者：
Burkart, Stefan;Diaz, Manuel;van der Hoek, Rein
COVID-19疫情加剧了拉丁美洲畜牧业转型实现可持续发展的困难，并造成了疫情和气候变化的“双重危机”。对动物源食品的需求不断增加，需要解决养牛对环境的负面影响，包括温室气体排放、生物多样性丧失和森林砍伐，以及气候变化对养牛的影响（长期干旱、雨季延长、热应激），这些都强调了以饲料为基础的牛肉和乳制品系统的可持续强化，以缓解和适应气候变化。这是履行许多拉丁美洲国家根据《巴黎协定》作出的减少温室气体排放的承诺所必需的。通过定性方法，本透视文件回顾了COVID-19大流行对哥伦比亚养牛业可持续集约化进展的当前和潜在影响。它还概述了哥伦比亚可持续集约化的新机会，可为其他拉丁美洲国家提供有益的范例。短期影响，例如：（一）投入价格上涨，（二）获得投入、信贷和技术援助的机会有限，（三）收入减少，限制了对价值链沿着可持续集约化的投资。用于研究和开发资金的资源减少，缺乏熟练和有经验的工作人员，旅行和人与人之间的互动受到限制，这一切都导致可持续技术和方案的开发和应用受到挫折。这一问题已通过更多地使用通信技术得到解决，但在广泛提供这类技术方面存在困难，特别是对农民而言。消费者需求正在向更可持续的动物产品长期转移，预计这种转移将继续下去，这将为可持续集约化带来新的机会。
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties associated with the need to transition the cattle sector in Latin America towards achieving sustainability and created a "double crisis" of pandemic and climate change. The increasing demand for animal sourced foods and the need to address the negative environmental impacts of cattle production, including greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and deforestation, and the implications of climate change on cattle production (prolonged droughts, prolonged rainy seasons, heat stress), have placed strong emphasis on sustainable intensification of forage-based beef and dairy systems for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is needed to meet the commitments made by many Latin American countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. Through a qualitative approach, this perspective paper reviews the present and potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on progress towards sustainable intensification of the Colombian cattle sector. It also outlines new opportunities for sustainable intensification in Colombia that may provide useful examples for other Latin American countries. Short-term impacts such as: (i) increased input prices, (ii) limited access to inputs, credit, and technical assistance, and (iii) reduced incomes, have limited investment in sustainable intensification along the value chains. Reduced resources for research and development funding, unavailability of skilled and experienced staff, restrictions to travel and person-to-person interactions, in tandem, have caused setbacks in the development and application of sustainable technologies and programs. This has been addressed by increased use of technology for communication but there are difficulties with the broad availability of such technologies, especially for farmers. A long-term shift of consumer demand towards more sustainable animal products is occurring and expected to continue, and this should lead to new opportunities for sustainable intensification.