03040naa a2200361 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200140006002400360007410000150011024501890012526000090031450006520032352012420097565300300221765300220224765300270226965300300229665300160232665300210234270000180236370000160238170000200239770000150241770000170243270000160244970000140246570000170247970000170249670000180251370000210253177301260255210620012021-04-28       2021    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a0308-521X7 a10.1016/j.agsy.2021.1031482DOI1 aRUGGIA, A.  aThe application of ecologically intensive principles to the systemic redesign of livestock farms on native grasslandsbA case of co-innovation in Rocha, Uruguay.h[electronic resource]  c2021  aArticle history: Received 30 November 2020; Received in revised form 5 April 2021; Accepted 6 April 2021. Editor: Guillaume Martin. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Corresponding author at: Instituto Nacional de Investigaci´on Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental INIA Las Brujas, Ruta 48 km 10, Canelones, Uruguay and P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK, Wageningen, The Netherlands.  Corresponding author: Andrea Ruggia - E-mail: aruggia@inia.org.uy, andrea.ruggia@wur.nl Corresponding author: Santiago Dogliotte - E-mail: sandog@fagro.edu.uy  aABSTRACT. CONTEXT: Family-run cow-calf farms based on native grasslands exhibit low economic and social sustainability, as reflected in low family incomes and high workloads. Experimental results have shown that pasture?herd interaction management could improve native grasslands and animal productivity. OBJECTIVE: This paper analyzes the extent to which the sustainability of family-run livestock farms based on native grasslands could be enhanced by a systemic redesign informed by ecological intensification practices. The research questions address the initial state of farm sustainability, key bottlenecks to improving farm sustainability, and changes in sustainability criteria achieved over three years of farm redesign. METHODS: The study was executed as part of a multi-level co-innovation project in Uruguay in which a team of scientist-practitioners and seven farm families participated in farm characterization, diagnosis, and redesign. The farm characterization took the form of indicators to describe the farms' management and bio-physical subsystems. Redesign plans were negotiated between the research team and the farmers. Frequent monitoring and evaluation cycles enabled finetuning across the years of implementation.  aMonitoring and evaluation  aNative grasslands  aParticipatory approach  aPasture-herd interactions  aReflexivity  aSystems thinking1 aDOGLIOTTI, S.1 aAGUERRE, V.1 aALBICETTE, M.M.1 aALBÍN, A.1 aBLUMETTO, O.1 aCARDOZO, G.1 aLEONI, C.1 aQUINTANS, G.1 aSCARLATO, S.1 aTITTONELL, P.1 aROSSING, W. A.H.  tAgricultural Systems, June 2021, Volume 191, Article 103148. OPEN ACCESS. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103148