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July 18, 2019 | BBC
Cattle farming is responsible for almost 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Silvopastures offer a solution with multiple environmental benefits. In a BBC short video and podcast, ELTI alumni Sandra Carbonell (farm owner) and Carlos Mejía (sustainable ranching specialist), explain how cows that eat bushes and graze in woodland grow faster and produce less methane than cows in open pastures.
The video “How a new diet for gassy cows is helping the environment,” produced by Daniel Gordon for BBC World Service, shows the striking contrast between Sandra’s silvopastoral farm and a degraded conventional cattle ranch.
The episode “Reinventing the ranch,” aired on May 21, 2019, focuses on a project that is helping Colombian cattle farmers completely remodel their land to fight climate change. This podcast, called People Fixing the World, features brilliant solutions to global problems.
ELTI has offered a variety of training events for the technical team and several cattle ranchers involved in the Colombian Sustainable Cattle Ranching project, between 2011 and 2019.