Abstract

MASCARENHAS¹, Nágela M. H. et al. Models of sustainable agriculture: biodynamic and silvopastoral system. Rev. de Ciências Agrárias [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.3, pp.228-245.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 0871-018X.  https://doi.org/10.19084/rca.20853.

The objective of this review was to compare two models of sustainable agriculture, demonstrating their advantages and disadvantages and correlating them with each other. The diverse contemporary agricultural practices comprise from alternative models of agriculture, such as permaculture, organic farming, organic, biodynamic, that are considered sustainable, and intensive production models, that present several negative points, contrasting with alternative models. The search for a less aggressive agriculture to the environment, what stay productive in the long run, it has been a constant concern of researchers and producers. Agricultural models are similar to each other, what differs are some practices that do not are allowed in all, and its foundation bases. In this review, two models were more approached in a simplified way, to the perception of their concepts and fundamental bases, showing what differentiates them, and that still leads to the same goal, creating an ecosystem independent of external resources.

Keywords : mixed farming; agroecological management; sustainability.

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