This project aims to propose viable technological alternatives for a competitive stockbreeding practice, making responsible use of the environment and regional resources and preserving the native flora and fauna of the Cerrado, Amazon and Pantanal. The beef cattle industry has an expressive social and economical role, being responsible for more than 6 million jobs and contributing with more than US$3 billion in the country's exportation activities. The Cerrado is currently the most important region for the country's beef cattle industry. There is an opportunity to establish national strategies aiming to increase the competitiveness of the beef cattle industry due to this activity's flexibility. Currently, side by side with the traditional production system over large properties, there emerges various possibilities: integration between soil cultivation and stockbreeding, cattle confinement and semi-confinement, intensified grasslands and silvopastoral systems. The advantages of each system are defined as a function of the regions' resources availability, prices and market. The main point of this project is to compare the environmental, social and economical impacts of the different systems, with the intention to identify the most adequate system for each specific scenario and help formulate public policies and programs focusing on the sector, which have as most important beneficiaries the decision makers in a regional and national standpoint, and indirectly, the farmers and the general society. /n