To stop and mitigate the adverse effects derived from livestock activity, the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development of Antioquia, Colombia’s second most important department, implemented silvopastoral systems as one of main projects in the protection of the environmentThe implementation of silvopastoral systems favors in a planned way the interaction between trees, crops and livestock, facilitating biological interactions between them, which optimizes land use, conserves plant cover to reduce the climatic effects of economic activity and, in addition, increases productivity and animal welfare, generating more profitability and better meat qualityTraditional livestock management has been based solely on grass pastures. A well managed cattle ranch is very different from the traditional one, the use of new fodder bushes has an important function in the retention of carbon. Another aspect is water, since in the production of food of animal origin there is a high consumption