Livestock and the Environment Flagship: Initial ideas for integrated core project
1. Livestock and the Environment
Flagship: Initial ideas for Integrated
Core Project
An Notenbaert, CIAT
Livestock CRP Priority Countries Planning Meeting
26 – 27 March 2019
Nairobi, Kenya
2. Four dimensions – three cluster
DIMENSIONS
1. Soil Health
2. GHG emissions / CC
3. Water (quantity and quality)
4. Biodiversity
CLUSTERS
1. Assess the environmental sustainability and adaptability of livestock production technologies
2. Technical solutions for GHG emissions and rangeland restoration
3. Institutional solutions
Livestock Environment
3. 4/25/2019 3
Tanzania Dairy
FOCUS
1. GHG emission mitigation
2. Ex-ante assessments (CLEANED) ¬ decision making processes
BEST-BET INTERVENTIONS
1. Improved feeding (packaged)
CORE TEAM
Lutz Merbold, An Notenbaert, Birthe Paul, Svenja Marqardt
4. 4/25/2019 4
Ethiopia Small Ruminants
FOCUS
1. Rangeland management
(communal grazing areas – improve productivity)
2. Future heat stress assessments
3. Environmental footprint assessments
CORE TEAM
Fiona Flintan, Jason Sircely, Lance Robinson,
Masresha Taye
5. 4/25/2019 5
Uganda pigs
FOCUS
1. Environmental assessments of different packages of interventions
(water, land, competition with human food, …)
reduced environmental footprint
2. Heat-stress adaptation
BEST-BET INTERVENTIONS
1. Improved manure and waste management
2. Heat-stress awareness and EW, adaptation options
3. Feeding strategies
CORE TEAM
Polly Ericksen, An Notenbaert
6. 4/25/2019 6
Vietnam
FOCUS
1. GHG emission mitigation
2. Water use efficiency
3. Nutrient cycling
BEST-BET INTERVENTIONS
1. Feeds/forages (incl. green manure cover crops, SOC)
2. Improved WUE - TBD
3. Manure and biomass management
CORE TEAM
Sabine Douxchamps, John Goopy
7. CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
livestock.cgiar.org
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock aims to increase the productivity and profitability of livestock agri-food
systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and eggs more available and affordable across the developing world.
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