IBERPAPEL SILVIPASTURAL SYSTEM ON DEGRADED LAND

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Departments of Canelones, Maldonado and Lavalleja, South East Uruguay

IBERPAPEL SILVIPASTURAL SYSTEM ON DEGRADED LAND

The project comprises a total of 4,691 ha of land with a history of agriculture with intensive tillage or grazing by beef cattle, activities that have caused severe soil erosion and degradation. Forest plantations for obtaining pulpwood and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be established. These plantations are part of a silvipastural system. This project activity is implemented on degraded lands, which are expected to continue to degrade in the absence of the project and hence the land cannot be expected to revert to a non-degraded state without human intervention.

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