In Latin America, the project Livestock-Natural Resource Interfaces at the Internal Frontier, headed by Tim Moermond of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), deals with the impact of increasing human population on the conversion of forest and the management of integrated livestock systems that protect and use the biodiversity of these ecosystems. The importance of water emanating from the mountain forest is central to the project, which is organized at the watershed level. The project uses a strong community based involvement to address how to develop productive, profitable and environmentally sustainable food systems in marginal environments for livestock production.

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