ACOSTA GUTIERREZ, Zoe G; PEREDA MOUSO, Jorge    PLASENCIA FRAGA, José M. Integration of Environmental Management Tools to Reduce Vulnerabilities in Livestock Areas. []. , 30, 3, pp.1-5. ISSN 2224-7920.

The aim of this research was to integrate environmental management tools to reduce vulnerabilities on farms chosen as intervention sites of the Environmental Bases for Local Food Sustainability (BASAL) project, in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey, Cuba. The tools included were, environmental arrangement model (MOA) and studies of hydrometeorological hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks of droughts, rural fires, and epizooties. Four dairy farms (UPL) from the Patria o Muerte Basic Production Cooperative (UBPC) were evaluated. The units were located on the digital map of the environmental units (EU) of MOA to consider the guidelines for each of them. The measures to be adopted depending on the type of hazard were reviewed and integrated by unit. As a result, the four dairy farms were established within the EU limits for which the main recommended environmental use was livestock raising. Accordingly, four measures were identified for implementation in order to achieve integrated environmental management, which will be added to adaptation measures to climate change, based on BASAL´s recommendations for those sites. It was concluded that the integration of the tools described improved the portfolio of measures for adaptation to climate change, recommended at the UPLs of the Patria o Muerte UBPC. It will contribute to environmental management integration aiming to sustainable dairy production.

: environmental management; dairy production; livestock raising and environment.

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