Adriana Bussoni Guitart

Universidad de la República de Uruguay | UdelaR · Department of Agronomist

Silvopastoral systems combine forestry and livestock activities, establishing productive and economic interactions that must be known in order to project their viability in the medium to long term. Important aspects of these systems are spacing arrangement, wood production and economic return. The present study was carried out on a farm with commer...

This study aimed to assess microclimate regulation, forage production, and carbon storage as Environmental Services (ES) of a Silvopastoral System (SPS). The evaluations were conducted from June 2019 to June 2021 in a ranch establishment in Uruguay. The SPS was implanted in 2012 with trees of Eucalyptus grandis in triple rows and alleys of Campo Na...

We estimated stand level timber investment returns for a range of 16 countries and 47 planted species/management regimes in 2020, using capital budgeting criteria, at a real discount rate of 8%, without land costs. Plantation management financial returns were estimated for the principal plantation countries in the Americas—Brazil, Argentina, Urugua...

Context Forestry production can provide a valuable commodity and environmental services to complement cattle farming through the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) from meat production, allowing more intensive use of natural resources. Objective This study addressed the long-term integration of forestry and cattle farming to achieve productive,...

We estimated timber investment returns for 22 countries and 54 species/management regimes in 2017, for a range of global timber plantation species and countries at the stand level, using capital budgeting criteria, without land costs, at a real discount rate of 8%. Returns were estimated for the principal plantation countries in the Americas—Brazil...

Global changes in land use and increased forestry plantations have reduced the livestock area in Uruguay, and silvopastoral systems have recently emerged. This paper aimed to quantify these new systems, and to identify the diversity of patterns of integration of forestry and livestock production. Based on detailed data from the 2011 Uruguay Census...

Silvopastoral systems (SPSs) in Uruguay have been developed in the context of a recently formed plantation forestry sector. Beef cattle farmers have long been adopting forestry mostly as woodlots or SPSs. In spite of the potential complementary relationship between forestry and cattle husbandry, research in temperate regions is scarce. The objectiv...

Prior research in 2005 and 2008 estimated planted forest investment returns for a set of countries and included some natural forest species in a few countries. This research has extended those analyses to a larger set of countries and focused on plantation species, for seven years. This research serves as a "benchmarking" exercise that helps identi...

"margin-bottom: 0cm"Total world pulp production in 1980 was 128 million Mg, reaching 174 million Mg in 2012. One of the strategies adopted for meeting growing demand was increasing plantation productivity through breeding and improvement of the manufacturing process (m3/ha and Mg cellulose/ha increases). The objective of this work was assessing the...

Silvopasture systems combine trees, forage, and livestock in a variety of different species and management regimes, depending on the biophysical, economic, cultural, and market factors in a region. We describe and compare actual farm practices and current research trials of silvopastoral systems in eight regions within seven countries of the world:...

In Uruguay, female calves are often custom raised until they reach the stage in which to become pregnant in Dairy Rearing Farms (DRFs). These facilities are managed by producers’ associations, mainly on public land. The object of present work was to establish how the organization, the use of resources and custom agreements with producers are settle...

The Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation area in north-east Uruguay was 108 000 ha in 2008. Recent industrial capacity developments have resulted in major structural changes. Silvicultural system selection depends on site productivity, costs, timber prices and public policies. This study aimed to assess economic returns for two silvicultural s...

Approval of the Clean Development Mechanism, provided for in the Kyoto Protocol, enables countries with afforested land to trade in carbon emissions reduction certificates related to carbon dioxide equivalent quantities (CO2-e) stored within a certain forest area. Potential CO2-e above base line sequestration was determined for two forest sites on...

The northwest region of the province of Buenos Aires presents cyclical periods of flooding and drought. The last humid cycle started in 1970 with large flooding areas, a rise of the water-table, severe economic losses in the farming sector, environmental deterioration, and social problems. Biodrainage is a technique where vegetation is used to cont...

La región noroeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires presenta periodos cíclicos de inundación y sequía. En 1970 se inicia el último ciclo húmedo registrado con grandes inundaciones, ascenso de la superficie freática e importantes pérdidas económicas en el sector agropecuario, un deterioro ambiental y problemas sociales. El bio-drenaje es una técnica...

La industria forestal en Uruguay, i.e. aserrado, fabricación de pastas celulósicas, tableros MDF y de contrachapado están en rápida expansión. Pinus taeda se ha cultivado tanto para la producción de pulpa como de madera de aserrío. Los productos de aserradero incluyen varias categorías de calidad, desde tablas de encofrado y pallets hasta tablas si...