Participants included INTA (Argentina and Costa Rica), Embrapa and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), INIA (Chile and Uruguay), AGROSAVIA and CIAT (Colombia), and Landcare Research (New Zealand). The region has highly valuable experiments:

• Uruguay: INIA crop-sequence trials running since 1963.

• Brazil: Embrapa trials since 1991.

• Colombia: silvopastoral systems evaluated by AGROSAVIA since 2000.

• Costa Rica: grazing management comparisons since 2012.