Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry (ILPF)

ILPF (Integração Lavoura-Pecuária-Floresta) rotates or intercropts grain crops, livestock grazing, and tree plantations on the same area. Trees provide shade for cattle (improving weight gain), crops provide revenue during tree establishment, and cattle fertilize the soil — a closed-loop system.

Brazil's NDC climate commitment targets 5 million additional hectares of ILPF by 2030. The system recovers degraded pastures (Brazil has ~100 million hectares of degraded grassland) without clearing new forest, directly addressing the deforestation pressure that drives Amazon destruction.

The technology is uniquely suited to tropical latitudes where year-round growth allows all three components to produce simultaneously. Eucalyptus trees reach harvestable size in 7 years in Brazil versus 25+ years in temperate climates.