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Role of integrated crop-livestock systems in improving agriculture production and addressing food security – A review

Udayakumar Sekaran, Liming Lai, David A.N. Ussiri, Sandeep Kumar, Sharon Clay Abstract Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) can be productive, sustainable, and climate-resilient agricultural systems compared to specialized and intensive systems. This review explores the beneficial traits and contributions of ICLS to food security, social and economic benefits, and resilience, and proposes strategies to adopt ICLSs in low-, medium-, and high-income countries. Currently, global food security faces two main challenges. First, one in nine people do not have sufficient protein and energy in their diet, of those 50% are smallholder subsistence ...