Contribution of grasslands to the development of sustainable production systems

Abstract

Grasslands constitute one of the largest biomes of the planet, with an extension of 46 million km2 , which represents 26% of the land and 80% of the agricultural land of the world. They are present in every continent, excluding Antarctica, and distributed in a wide range of edaphic and climatic conditions, from those too wet to be deserts to those too dry to sustain forests.
The evolution of humans has been tightly linked to the emergence of grasslands. Since the appearance of the first hominids, grasslands were the main scenario for their evolution, promoting the development of the traits that make us humans ...